Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Healing in the ancient world; 2. Women healers in the middle ages; 3. Healing in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries; 4. Witchcraft, magic and medicine; 5. Everyday medicine in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries; 6. Midwifery: the growing profession; 7. Smallpox: the development of inoculation; 8. Public health in the industrial age; 9. Medical care in the industrial towns; 10. Women and doctors in the 19th and 20th centuries; 11. The effects of war on medicine; 12. Women in medicine today.