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Author Tannenbaum, Rebecca J., author

Title The Healer's Calling : Women and Medicine in Early New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource : 4 halftones
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Community -- 1. Calling The Healers Early Modern Medicine And Colonial Practitioners -- 2. Called To The Bedside Medicine In The Household -- 3. Calling The Women Medical Networks And Women's Communities -- 4. A Higher Calling High-Ranking Women And The Uses Of Healing -- Part 2: Authority -- 5. Called To Court Women Healers As Witnesses And Authorities -- 6. Calling The Doctoress Commercial Practice -- Epilogue The Changing Context Of The Healer's Calling -- Notes -- Index
Summary 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 physicians; and midwives were crucial "expert witnesses" in cases of fornication, murder, and witchcraft. Yet there were limits to the authority of women's healing communities, with consequences for those who overstepped the bounds. By setting women's practice in the context of contemporary medicine, gender roles, and community norms, Tannenbaum also reveals the relationship between women's medical practice and witchcraft accusations. Tannenbaum examines colonial America's full range of medical options-including the work of classically trained male doctors and male lay practitioners-with a keen eye to the interactions and tensions between men and women in the realm of healing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-172) and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
Subject Women in medicine -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Women in medicine -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Medicine -- History.
Physicians, Women -- history
History of Nursing
Midwifery -- history
History of Medicine
history of medicine.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Medicine
Women in medicine
Laienmedizin
Heilerin
Medizinische Versorgung
Frau
Geschichte 1650-1800.
SUBJECT New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091268
New England. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091260
New England
Subject New England
Neuengland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501720192
1501720198