Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaries [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: Harming the healers wise women, witches and visionaries 2. Safiye Ali: The first female physician in T?rkiye 3. Health revolutionary, Maida Herman Solomon: Pioneer in the field of clinical social work 4. St Ultans Hospital for Sick Infants; Drs Kathleen Lynn, Elizabeth Tennant, Katherine Maguire, Ella Webb, and Dorothy Stopford Price 5. Ada Shillman: Midwife to the Jewish Community in Dublin 6. Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi: the architect of maternal public health in Nigeria 7. Edwina Jeruto Kwallah: organizing against gender-based violence 8. Examining the Contributions of Catherine Brogan to Healthcare Management: Lessons Learned from Implementing New Approaches to Mental Health Recovery  A Personal Journey 9. Ann Beckett: A Pioneering Irish Occupational Therapist 10. Morrnah Nalamaku Simeonas updated Hooponopono: Bridging Indigenous Wisdom and Contemporary Health 11. Professor Dame Clare Gerada: The Doctors Doctor Challenging the Institution of the Medical Self 12. Conclusion-What now for women in Healthcare Management?

This book contributes to the process of writing women back-in to our shared history and understanding of health and its management.?The book also shows how the work of these women went beyond health management to influence political and societal change.

Writings on health and health management have long been concerned with the great figures that have preserved, protected or extended life. From Hippocrates and Galen to Vesalius, Lister, Mengele, Pasteur, Jenner and Fleming, these writings have celebrated individuals whose knowledge and practice has treated our ills and sought to better manage our care. For the most part, this has been a history of great men [sic]. There are honourable mentions for a small number of women such as Elizabeth Blackwell or Florence Nightingale but, by and large, one would be forgiven for assuming that the management of health has nearly always been thel3#