{"title":"Karen Bloom Gevirtz","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Bloom Gevirtz offers richly woven narratives that blend history with compelling insights into the natural world. Her work often explores the intricate relationships between people and the environments they inhabit, inviting readers to discover the secrets held within nature’s stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on \u003cem\u003eScience \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, her books like \u003cstrong\u003eThe Apothecary's Wife\u003c\/strong\u003e illuminate the mysteries of botanical and natural healing, combining vivid storytelling with thoughtful reflection on the past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-apothecarys-wife-by-karen-bloom-gevirtz-9781803286990","title":"The Apothecary's Wife","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow women were removed from the Scientific Revolution, and what we lost as a result.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments and charging for the privilege. For the most reliable, effective treatment, the ill and injured went to the women in their lives. This system lasted hundreds of years and it took less than a century to replace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1650 and 1740, physicians and apothecaries became the preferred providers to the hurt and sick, and women’s domestic treatments were considered inferior. It was a brilliant campaign – the effectiveness of medication and its ingredients had not changed – but in the cultural consciousness, the domestic female and the physician had switched places: she the ineffective, potentially dangerous quack; he the knowledgeable, trustworthy expert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Apothecary’s Wife\u003c\/em\u003e tells this other, overlooked story of medicine, that male professionals used the opportunity created by the Scientific Revolution to wrest control of medicine away from women. In doing so, they transformed domestic, organic medication and its communal methods and concepts into an economic system. Thoroughly researched and fiercely argued, Gevirtz shows how a great deal was lost in this moment in history, and explores how this inheritance underpins today’s for-profit medication system, and the global healthcare crises we face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854902808812,"sku":"9781803286990","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7202e37fdbaeb3d5ecda9b2b1c9f5e9e.jpg?v=1759263446"},{"product_id":"the-apothecarys-wife-by-karen-bloom-gevirtz-9781803287003","title":"The Apothecary's Wife","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments – and charging for the privilege. For the most effective treatment, the ill and injured went to the women in their lives. This system lasted hundreds of years. It was gone in less than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContrary to the familiar story, medication did not improve during the Scientific Revolution. Yet somehow, between 1650 and 1740, the domestic female and the physician switched places in the cultural consciousness: she became the ineffective, potentially dangerous quack, he the knowledgeable, trustworthy expert. The professionals normalized the idea of paying them for what people already got at home without charge, laying the foundation for Big Pharma and today’s global for-profit medication system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA revelatory history of medicine, \u003ci\u003eThe Apothecary’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the myths of the triumph of science and instead uncovers the fascinating truth. Drawing on a vast body of archival material, Karen Bloom Gevirtz depicts the extraordinary cast of characters who brought about this transformation. She also explores domestic medicine’s values in responses to modern health crises, such as the eradication of smallpox, and what benefits we can learn from these events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496553857260,"sku":"9781803287003","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803287003-the-apothecary-s-wife.jpg?v=1775798760"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/karen-bloom-gevirtz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}