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5 pages in length. The topic of this book evokes a sense of patriarchal control and unmitigated ignorance with regard to the 'science' of medicine and how it has evolved during the past few hundred years. Women's contributions, disregarded and shunned until very recently, have historically been overshadowed by oppressive patriarchal perspectives; by chronicling the events that have occurred throughout the centuries in relation to women and the medical community, Ehrenreich and English help to illustrate just how despotic the entire male-based medical profession has been, particularly in light of the unpleasant legacy left by the witch hunts of old. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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during the past few hundred years. Womens contributions, disregarded and shunned until very recently, have historically been overshadowed by oppressive patriarchal perspectives; by chronicling the events that have occurred
throughout the centuries in relation to women and the medical community, Ehrenreich and English help to illustrate just how despotic the entire male-based medical profession has been, particularly in light
of the unpleasant legacy left by the witch hunts of old. "The witch-hunts left a lasting effect: An aspect of the female has ever since been associated with the
witch, and an aura of contamination has remained - especially around the midwife and other women healers. This early and devastating exclusion of women from independent healing roles was
a violent precedent and a warning: It was to become a theme of our history" (Ehrenreich et al 6). A profession that
was decidedly more of the female persuasion in the mid-eighteen hundreds was that of nursing. Considered an extension of a womans natural ability to nurture and tend to others,
nursing fell into the more traditional female role where the majority of women went unpaid for their services. Ehrenreich and English indicate that womens contributions -- no matter how
physically or mentally trying -- did not carry anywhere near the same weight as those by their male counterparts. Nursing had long been considered on the outskirts of the
medical community in that they were a necessary entity as a means by which the infirmed could recuperate; however, the efforts nurses made went virtually unnoticed, while male doctors received
all the accolades. "One might say that with all its compromises and contortions, nursing is the quintessential womens profession" (Dickin 617). Inasmuch as nursing presented women with the
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