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Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing by Lucy H. Pearce is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD 2018 Medicine Woman is the sister book to Burning Woman and Creatrix from Amazon bestselling author, Lucy H. Pearce. This audacious questioning of the current medical system’s ability to deal with the modern epidemic of chronic illness, combines a raw personal memoir of sickness and healing, woven through with voices of dozens of other long-term sick women of the world and a feminine cultural critique that digs deep into the roots of patriarchal medicine. Pearce takes us from its ancient Greek roots, through the influences of the Enlightenment and Christianity, the wholesale destruction of the wise woman tradition and Western colonial destruction of native medicines to the current technocratic, capitalist model of medicine. Medicine Woman asks the uncomfortable questions that our culture refuses to face: •Why chronic illness, mental health issues, medical prescriptions and costs are rising exponentially. •Why women are the major sufferers of the modern epidemic of auto-immune conditions. •Why women are twice as likely to be medicated for depression. •Why women tend to be taken less seriously by medical professionals. Medicine Woman voices a deep ye

Who reads Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing?

Author

Lucy H. Pearce

Publisher

Womancraft Publishing

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781910559413

Category

nonfiction