An essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters.

Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English raise an exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today’s changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.

“This booklet will open your eyes. Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English show how, for reasons of class politics, women’s suppression and naked greed, wealthy men discredited, persecuted and outright killed the wisewomen healers, leaving themselves to be the sole practitioners of their ‘scientific’ medicine. The information presented here gives a whole new perspective to medical history and points to some of the causes underlying our current healthcare mess.” —WomanSource Catalog & Review

This is a risoprinted facsimile of the original 1973 pamphlet published by The Feminist Press.

Cutt Press, 2025. 

A5, stiched, 50pp