#through the looking glass

[...] It was the combination of upper-class and male-superiority that gave medicine essential authority— Now, at last, ...

[...] The women lost the place they occupied over the centuries as healers and midwives. The alleged rationality and ...

The persecution of witches may have been attempts to expel from the social order women whose skills in various healing arts—...

Therefore, as the tenets of science superseded those of theology and philosophy, the notion of “evil” was replaced with that ...