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The Apothecary's Wife
The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
Buch von Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Sprache: Englisch

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How women were removed from the Scientific Revolution, and what we lost as a result.

The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments and charging for the privilege. For the most reliable, effective treatment, the ill and injured went to the women in their life. This system lasted hundreds of years and it took less than a century to replace.

Between 1650 and 1740, physicians and apothecaries became the preferred providers to the hurt and sick, and women's domestic treatments were considered inferior. It was a brilliant campaign - the effectiveness of medication and its ingredients had not changed - but in the cultural consciousness, the domestic female and the physician had switched places: she the ineffective, potentially dangerous quack; he the knowledgeable, trustworthy expert.

The Apothecary's Wife tells this other, overlooked story of medicine, that male professionals used the opportunity created by the Scientific Revolution to wrest control of medicine away from women. In doing so, they transformed domestic, organic medication and its communal methods and concepts into an economic system. Thoroughly researched and fiercely argued, Gevirtz shows how a great deal was lost in this moment in history, and explores how this inheritance underpins today's for-profit medication system, and the global healthcare crises we face.
How women were removed from the Scientific Revolution, and what we lost as a result.

The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments and charging for the privilege. For the most reliable, effective treatment, the ill and injured went to the women in their life. This system lasted hundreds of years and it took less than a century to replace.

Between 1650 and 1740, physicians and apothecaries became the preferred providers to the hurt and sick, and women's domestic treatments were considered inferior. It was a brilliant campaign - the effectiveness of medication and its ingredients had not changed - but in the cultural consciousness, the domestic female and the physician had switched places: she the ineffective, potentially dangerous quack; he the knowledgeable, trustworthy expert.

The Apothecary's Wife tells this other, overlooked story of medicine, that male professionals used the opportunity created by the Scientific Revolution to wrest control of medicine away from women. In doing so, they transformed domestic, organic medication and its communal methods and concepts into an economic system. Thoroughly researched and fiercely argued, Gevirtz shows how a great deal was lost in this moment in history, and explores how this inheritance underpins today's for-profit medication system, and the global healthcare crises we face.
Über den Autor
Karen Bloom Gevirtz spent nearly three decades as a professor of English at American universities before becoming an independent scholar. She also taught in Women's and Gender Studies programs, as well as the Medical Humanities program at Seton Hall University, where she developed courses connecting the sciences and humanities. Gevirtz earned a BA in English at Brown University while also taking pre-med courses and working as a research assistant in a neurochemistry lab. She has a PhD in British Literature from Emory University, where her dissertation was a finalist for the Lore Metzger Prize. Internationally recognized for her scholarship on women and writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, she has received research fellowships and grants from organizations including the Folger Shakespeare Library, Chawton House Library, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Loughborough University. Gevirtz has authored academic articles, chapters and three scholarly books, and co-edited a collection of essays. The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity is her first book for a non-academic audience. She lives in New Jersey, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781803286990
ISBN-10: 1803286997
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
Hersteller: Head of Zeus Ltd.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: 1 x 8pp plate section
Maße: 240 x 159 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,558 kg
Artikel-ID: 128667288
Über den Autor
Karen Bloom Gevirtz spent nearly three decades as a professor of English at American universities before becoming an independent scholar. She also taught in Women's and Gender Studies programs, as well as the Medical Humanities program at Seton Hall University, where she developed courses connecting the sciences and humanities. Gevirtz earned a BA in English at Brown University while also taking pre-med courses and working as a research assistant in a neurochemistry lab. She has a PhD in British Literature from Emory University, where her dissertation was a finalist for the Lore Metzger Prize. Internationally recognized for her scholarship on women and writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, she has received research fellowships and grants from organizations including the Folger Shakespeare Library, Chawton House Library, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Loughborough University. Gevirtz has authored academic articles, chapters and three scholarly books, and co-edited a collection of essays. The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity is her first book for a non-academic audience. She lives in New Jersey, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781803286990
ISBN-10: 1803286997
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
Hersteller: Head of Zeus Ltd.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: 1 x 8pp plate section
Maße: 240 x 159 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,558 kg
Artikel-ID: 128667288
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