The Apothecary’s Wife By Karen Bloom Gevirtz — Review

This engaging book recounts how the deep problems in the current pharmaceutical and medical industries in the United States stem from changes that occurred centuries ago.

Men in a Laboratory. (Rawpixel / CC0 / common domain)

Before the Scientific Revolution began in the 1500s, medicine and healing were domains that belonged solely to women. Based on recipes for herbal or herbaceous remedies that women developed through generations of trial-and-error and freely shared with their daughters, families, friends and nearby nei…