The healer's calling women and medicine in early New England /
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Community
- One: Calling the healers: Early modern medicine and colonial practitioners
- Two: Called to the bedside: medicine in the household
- Three: Calling the women: medical networks and women's communities Four: A higher calling: high-ranking women and the uses of healing
- pt. 2. Authority
- Five: Called to court: women healers as witnesses and authorities
- Six: Calling the doctoress: commercial practice
- Epilogue