Put names to histories, from Circe to Starhawk, Madame Fouquet to Biljana and Florence Nightingale.

Long barred from practicing medicine in an official capacity, women have never ceased developing their talents as healers since ancient times. This book highlights over fifty remarkable figures in the field of healthcare, from its beginnings to the present day: mythological characters, witches, mystics, shamans, and therapists, both famous and obscure, hailing from every continent. Journalist Godefroy's words and illustrator Szlamka's art dovetail in these collaborative diptychs that unearth forgotten histories and put names to faces, from Circe to Starhawk, Hildegarde von Bingen to Maria Sabina to Florence Nightingale.