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Women Healers - Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (Hardcover)
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Women Healers - Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Studies
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In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the
Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her
ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall
developed an extensive healing practice, consulted medical texts,
and conducted experiments based on personal observations. As
British North America's premier city of medicine and science,
Philadelphia offered Paschall a nurturing environment enriched by
diverse healing cultures and the Quaker values of gender equality
and women's education. She participated in transatlantic medical
and scientific networks with her friend, Benjamin Franklin.
Paschall was not unique, however. Women Healers recovers numerous
women of European, African, and Native American descent who
provided the bulk of health care in the greater Philadelphia area
for centuries. Although the history of women practitioners often
begins with the 1850 founding of Philadelphia's Female Medical
College, the first women's medical school in the United States,
these students merely continued the legacies of women like
Paschall. Remarkably, though, the lives and work of early American
female practitioners have gone largely unexplored. While some
sources depict these women as amateurs whose influence declined,
Susan Brandt documents women's authoritative medical work that
continued well into the nineteenth century. Spanning a century and
a half, Women Healers traces the transmission of European women's
medical remedies to the Delaware Valley where they blended with
African and Indigenous women's practices, forming hybrid healing
cultures. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brandt
demonstrates that women healers were not inflexible traditional
practitioners destined to fall victim to the onward march of
Enlightenment science, capitalism, and medical professionalization.
Instead, women of various classes and ethnicities found new sources
of healing authority, engaged in the consumer medical marketplace,
and resisted physicians' attempts to marginalize them. Brandt
reveals that women healers participated actively in medical and
scientific knowledge production and the transition to market
capitalism.
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