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Gifted women and skilled practitioners: Gender and healing authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740--1830.

机译:有天赋的妇女和熟练的从业人员:特拉华谷的性别和康复权威,1740--1830。

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This dissertation uncovers women healers' vital role in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century healthcare marketplace. Euro-American women healers participated in networks of health information sharing that reached across lines of class and gender, and included female practitioners in American Indian and African American communities. Although their contributions to the healthcare labor force are relatively invisible in the historical record, women healers in the Delaware Valley provided the bulk of healthcare for their families and communities. Nonetheless, apart from a few notable monographs, women healers' practices and authority remain understudied. My project complicates a medical historiography that marginalizes female practitioners and narrates their declining healthcare authority after the mid-eighteenth century due to the emergence of a consumer society, a culture of domesticity, the professionalization of medicine, and the rise of enlightened science, which generated discourses of women's innate irrationality. Using the Philadelphia area as a case study, I argue that women healers were not merely static traditional practitioners destined to fall victim to the march of science, medicine, and capitalism as this older narrative suggests.;Instead, I assert that women healers of various classes and ethnicities adapted their practices as they found new sources of healthcare authority through female education in the sciences, manuscript authorship, access to medical print media, the culture of sensibility, and the alternative gender norms of religious groups like the Quakers. Building on a longstanding foundation of recognized female practitioners, medically skilled women continued to fashion healing authority by participating in mutually affirming webs of medical information exchanges that reflected new ideas about science, health, and the body. In addition, women doctresses, herbalists, apothecaries, and druggists empowered themselves by participating in an increasingly commercialized and consumer-oriented healthcare marketplace. Within this unregulated environment, women healers in the colonies and early republic challenged physicians' claims to a monopoly on medical knowledge and practice. The practitioners analyzed in this study represent a bridge between the recognized and skilled women healers of the seventeenth century and the female healthcare professionals of the nineteenth century.
机译:本文揭示了女性治疗师在18世纪和19世纪初的医疗保健市场中的重要作用。欧美女性治疗者参加了覆盖各个阶层和性别的健康信息共享网络,其中包括美洲印第安人和非洲裔美国人社区的女性从业人员。尽管他们对医疗保健劳动力的贡献在历史记录中相对不可见,但特拉华河谷的女医士为家庭和社区提供了大部分医疗保健。然而,除了一些著名的专着之外,女性治疗师的做法和权威仍然未被研究。我的项目使医学史学变得复杂,该史学使女性执业者处于边缘地位,并叙述了由于消费者社会的兴起,家庭文化,医学专业化以及开明科学的兴起而导致其在医疗保健权威方面的下降。女性天生的非理性的话语。以费城地区为例,我认为女性治疗师不仅是静态的传统从业者,注定要像这种较老的叙述那样成为科学,医学和资本主义进程的受害者。相反,我断言各种女性治疗师阶级和种族适应了他们的做法,因为他们通过科学方面的女性教育,手稿作者,使用医疗印刷媒体,敏感文化以及贵格会等宗教团体的替代性别规范找到了医疗保健权威的新来源。在公认的女性从业者的长期基础上,医务熟练的妇女通过参与相互肯定的医学信息交流网来继续体现医治权威,这些交流反映了关于科学,健康和身体的新观念。此外,女教士,中医师,药剂师和药剂师通过参与日益商业化和面向消费者的医疗保健市场来增强自己的能力。在这种不受监管的环境中,殖民地和早期共和国的女医士挑战了医生声称垄断医学知识和实践的说法。在这项研究中分析的从业者代表了十七世纪公认的和熟练的女性治疗师与十九世纪的女性医疗保健专业人员之间的桥梁。

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  • 作者

    Brandt, Susan Hanket.;

  • 作者单位

    Temple University.;

  • 授予单位 Temple University.;
  • 学科 History United States.;Gender Studies.;Health Sciences Medicine and Surgery.;History of Science.;Womens Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2014
  • 页码 515 p.
  • 总页数 515
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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