Medicine Woman
Reclaiming the Soul of Healing
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An audacious questioning of the current medical system’s ability to deal with the modern epidemic of chronic illness, combining 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.
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Nautilus Silver Award 2018. Medicine Woman is the eagerly-awaited sister book to Burning Woman (Nautilus Silver Award 2017) 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 yearning for a broader vision of what it means to be human than our current paradigm allows for, calling on an ancient archetype of healing, Medicine Woman, to re-vision how we can navigate sickness and harness its transformational powers in order to heal.
Packed with dozens of healing arts exercises and hundreds of medicine questions to help integrate body and mind in the healing process. Like Burning Woman, this book promises initiation by transmission, reconnecting us directly with the soul of healing.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.45 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 216 × 140 mm |
| Sub-title | Reclaiming the Soul of Healing |
| Author | Lucy H. Pearce |
| Pages | 345 |
| ISBN | 978-1-910559-33-8 |
| Release date | Oct-18 |
| Signed? | Signed by the author |
| eBook ISBN | 978-1-910559-40-6 |
| Cover artist | H?lya Ozdemir |
| Can ship to the U.S.? | YES, with no restrictions. |
Meet the author
is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books for women, including her best-selling Burning Woman – an incendiary exploration of women and power – written for every woman who burns with passion, has been burned with shame, and in another time or place would be burned at the stake.
Lucy’s work is dedicated to supporting women’s empowered, embodied expression through her writing, teaching and art. She lives in East Cork, Ireland, where she runs Womancraft Publishing – creating life-changing, paradigm-shifting books by women, for women.
Meet the artist: also Lucy H. Pearce!
Womancraft Publishing is proud to celebrate not just the words, but the images of talented women too.
LUCY H. PEARCE paints the inner world of dreams, archetypes and pure energy, featuring on the cover of her own titles Burning Woman (2nd ed), Creatrix, Crow Moon, Moon Time, Reaching for the Moon, She of the Sea as well as several other Womancraft Publishing titles.
Symbols emerge which speak the language of the soul – the moon, spirals, trees, cherry blossom, feathers, birds and women’s bodies in all their beauty. Colours and energies shimmer and swirl: there is a sense of flow and meditative movement in her paintings that demands contemplation from the viewer, a shifting to another state of being.
Using a multi-layered intuitive painting technique, she builds up layer upon layer of rainbow colour: her paintings evolve from abstraction to dreamlike imagery. Her recent work incorporates her love of zentangles.
