Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 4 months ago
Views - 2
Ships From - Washington
Est. Publication Date - May 2002
Seller Description
Delightfully written yet clear account of women healers in early New England and their interaction with the local culture. An important but unappreciated part of everday history in colonial America. Read once with only tiny spot on the back dustcover.
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The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England
ISBN: 9780801438264
Publisher Description
"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...
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