How can our heritage revolutionize our future?
By giving us options.
When I first began researching women’s reproductive agency over two decades ago, I had no way of knowing I would one day be a mother of two daughters.
Daughters who may have to worry about whether they’ll be safe if they go to an emergency room.
Daughters who might be denied a say in how many children they have.
Daughters who could be criminally prosecuted for pursuing their own health and happiness.
This is the world that we in America, and millions of others around the globe, currently inhabit. But it’s not our only option.
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— Introducing —
Fertile Roots: Global Traditions of Herbalism and the Womb
A book about women’s health, fertility and the untapped power of plants.
People have long used medicinal plants to shape women’s fertility around the world, and millions still do.
Yet these alternatives are little researched, lesser known, and largely feared, today. As access to reproductive health care shrinks, emergency departments turn away pregnant women, and maternity care deserts spread across the United States, this ignorance is a growing threat to women.
When the health system we count on fails to offer the care we need, what can we do?
Fertile Roots takes readers around the world in search of an answer. Using science to decode the power of plants, it explores how humanity’s rich traditions of fertility management can—and already do—complement Western medicine and improve women’s health. It taps into my deep cultural and investigative expertise, as an anthropologist, to tackle the urgent issue of how to make women’s reproductive health more accessible, private, personalized, safe and affordable.
The stories it shares aren’t just enlightening. They show how embracing both medicinal plants and biomedicine can revolutionize our health.
