Healing legacies -- Medical networks -- Healing borderlands -- The authority of science -- Medical entrepreneurship -- Marketing health -- The fevered racial politics of healing -- Navigating new challenges -- Epilogue. A well-trodden path -- Glossary
Summary:
"Women Healers recovers Euro-American, Native American, and Black women's authoritative practices in the Philadelphia area during the long eighteenth century. Women developed healthcare authority and produced new scientific knowledge by participating in medical information networks, science education, health reform, and a consumer healthcare marketplace. Professional women physicians, pharmacists, and nurses built on this foundation"-- Provided by publisher