Healer's Calling Women and Medicine in Early New England

Name: Healer's Calling Women and Medicine in Early New England
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ISBN: 9780801474934

ISBN-10: 0801474930

ISBN-13: 9780801474934

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rebecca J. Tannenbaum

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This book, the first to describe women medical practitioners other than midwives in the colonial period, emphasizes that medical care was part of every woman's work. The Healer's Calling uses memorable anecdotes, engaging characters, and medical oddities to tell the fascinating story of the practice of household medicine in early America. Rebecca J. Tannenbaum points out that housewives provided much of the medical care available in the seventeenth century. Elite women cared for the indigent in their towns and used medical practice to make influential connections with powerful men; 'doctresses' or 'doctor women' supported themselves with their practices and competed directly with male…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English