Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Bobette Perrone (Author), Victoria Krueger (Author), H. Henrietta Stockel (Author)

9780806125121

Paperback / softback, published 15 March 1993

272 pages, 12 black & white illustrations
21.6 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm, 0.328 kg

The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths.

This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.