ID: GLSHW-4.3.8 Domestic Healing and Other Lay Practices (1679-1719) Here are listed works on women healers, health reformers, charismatics, chiropractors, and purveyors of patent remedies. GENERAL 1679 Allured, Janet L. "Women's Healing Art: Domestic Medicine in the Turn-of-the-Century Ozarks." GATEWAY HERITAGE 12 (Spring 1992): 20-31. 1680 Butler, Jonathon M. "Witchcraft, Healing, and Historian's Crazes." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 18 (Fall 1984): 111-118. 1681 Davies, Celia. "The Health Visitor as Mother's Friend: A Woman's Place in Public Health, 1900-1914." SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 1, no.1 (April 1988): 39-59. 1682 Fink, Leon, and Greenberg, Brian. UPHEAVAL IN THE QUIET ZONE: A HISTORY OF HOSPITAL WORKERS' UNION, LOCAL 1199. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 1683 Gartrell, Ellen G. "Women Healers and Domestic Remedies in 18th Century America: The Recipe Book of Elizabeth Coates Paschall." NEW YORK STATE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 87 (1987): 23-29. 1684 Hughes, Muriel Joy. WOMEN HEALERS IN MEDIEVAL LIFE AND LITERATURE. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1943. Repr. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968. 1685 Jaskoski, Helen. "`My Heart Will Go Out': Healing Songs of Native American Women." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 4 (1981): 118-34. 1686 Kloberdanz, Timothy J. "The Daughters of Shiphrah: Folk Healers and Midwives of the Great Plains." GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 9 (Winter 1989): 3-12. 1687 Koss-Chioino, Joan. WOMEN AS HEALERS, WOMEN AS PATIENTS: MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND TRADITIONAL HEALING IN PUERTO RICO. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. 1688 McClain, Carol Shepherd. WOMEN AS HEALERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989. 1689 Minkowski, William L. "Women Healers of the Middle Ages: Selected Aspects of Their History." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 82, iss.2 (February 1992): 288-295. 1690 Morantz, Regina Markell. "Making Women Modern: Middle-Class Women and Health Reform in 19th-Century America." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 10 (1977): 490-507. Repr. in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, pp.346-358. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1691 Morantz, Regina Markell. "Nineteenth Century Health Reform and Women: A Program of Self-Help." In MEDICINE WITHOUT DOCTORS: HOME HEALTH CARE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, ed. by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt, pp.73-93. New York: Science History Publications/USA, 1977. 1692 Peterson, Susan C. "Adapting to Fill a Need: The Presentation Sisters and Health Care, 1901-1961." SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORY 17 (Spring 1987): 1-22. 1693 Quiroga, Virginia A. Metaxas. "Female Lay Managers and Scientific Pediatrics at Nursery and Child's Hospital, 1854-1910." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 60 (Summer 1986): 194-208. On women members of Boards of Trustees. 1694 Riddett, Lyn. "Sisters, Wives, and Mothers: Settler Women as Healers and Preservers of Health in the N.T. During the 1930s." HECATE 15, no.2 (1989): 7-22. 1695 Sacks, Karen. CARING BY THE HOUR: WOMEN, WORK AND ORGANIZING AT DUKE MEDICAL CENTER. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. The relationships among class, gender, and race of hospital workers. 1696 Salazar, Sandra A. "Chicanas as Healers." In LA CHICANA: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE, AN ACTION PLAN FOR THE 80S, pp.107-119. Oakland, CA: National Hispanic University, 1981. 1697 Sawyer, Ronald C. "Strangely Handled in All Her Lyms': Witchcraft and Healing in Jacobean England." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 22 (Spring 1989): 461-485. 1698 Schilz, Thomas, and Schilz, Jodye Lynn Dickson. "Amazons, Witches and `Country Wives': Plains Indian Women in Historical Perspective." ANNALS OF WYOMING 59, no.1 (1987): 48-56. 1699 Sharp, Sharon A. "Folk Medicine Practices: Women as Keepers and Carriers of Knowledge." WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM 9, no.3 (1986): 243-249. On midwives, herbalists and spiritual healers in the Ozarks, Appalachia, and the South. 1700 Vrettos, Athena. "Curative Domains: Women, Healing and History in Black Women's Narratives." WOMEN'S STUDIES 16, nos. 3/4 (1989): 455-473. BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES OF INDIVIDUALS 1701 Blake, John B. "Mary Gove Nichols, Prophetess of Health." AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS 106 (1962): 219-234. Repr. in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, pp.359-375. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1702 Butler, Jonathan M., and Schoepflin, Rennie B. "Charismatic Women and Health: Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and Aimee Semple McPherson." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.337-365. New York: Garland, 1990. 1703 Cooter, Roger. "Dichotomy and Denial: Mesmerism, Medicine and Harriet Martineau." In SCIENCE AND SENSIBILITY: GENDER AND SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY, 1780-1945, ed. by Marina Benjamin, pp.144-173. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1991. 1704 Davis, Dona L. "George Beard and Lydia Pinkham: Gender, Class, and Nerves in Late 19th Century America." HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL 10, 2/3 (1989): 93-114. Discusses the feminization of nervous disorders. 1705 Flanagan, Sabina. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, 1098-1179: A VISIONARY LIFE. New York: Routledge, 1989. 1706 Halsband, Robert. "Lady Mary Wortley Montague and Inoculation." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 8 (1953): 390-405. British public health reformer, 1689-1762. 1707 Himelhoch, Myra Samuels, and Shaffer, Arthur H. "Elizabeth Packard: Nineteenth Century Crusader for the Rights of Mental Patients." JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES 13 (1979): 343-375. 1708 Jackson, Donald Dale. "If Women Needed a Quick Pick-Me-Up, Lydia Provided One." SMITHSONIAN 15 (July 1984): 107-119. On Lydia Pinkham. 1709 Keller, Allen. SCANDALOUS LADY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MADAME RESTELL, NEW YORK'S MOST NOTORIOUS ABORTIONIST. New York: Atheneum, 1981. 1710 Maxwell, Margaret F. "Cordelia Adams Crawford of the Tonto Basin." JOURNAL OF ARIZONA HISTORY 26, no.4 (1985): 415-428. Pioneer woman with reputation as a healer among whites and Apaches. 1711 McLoughlin, William G. "Aimee Semple McPherson: `Your Sister in the King's Glad Service.'" JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE 1 (1967): 193-217. 1712 Miller, Genevieve. "Putting Lady Mary [Montague] in Her Place: A Discussion of Historical Causation." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 55 (1981): 2-16. 1713 Numbers, Ronald L., and Schoepflin, Rennie B. "Ministries of Healing: Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and the Religion of Health." In WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt, pp.376-389. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1714 Numbers, Ronald L. PROPHETESS OF HEALTH: ELLEN G. WHITE AND THE ORIGIN OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HEALTH REFORM. 1992. White was a founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and a health reformer interested in vegetarianism, hydropathy, and the building of sanitariums. This is a revised and enlarged edition of PROPHETESS OF HEALTH: A STUDY OF ELLEN G. WHITE (1976), with a new psychological profile co-authored by Janet S. Numbers, and an introduction by Jonathan M Butler. 1715 Stage, Sarah. FEMALE COMPLAINTS: LYDIA PINKHAM AND THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE. New York: Norton, 1979. 1716 Stepsis, M. Ursula, and Liptak, Dolores, eds. PIONEER HEALERS: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS IN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE. New York: Crossroad, 1989. 1717 Strehlow, Wighard, and Hertzka, Gottfried. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN'S MEDICINE. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co., 1987. Biography of St. Hildegard (1098-1179). 1718 Strohl, E. Lee. "The Fascinating Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1792." ARCHIVES OF SURGERY 89 (1964): 554-558. Public health innovator, advocate of smallpox inoculation. 1719 Washburn, Robert Collyer. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM. New York: Putnam, 1931. Repr. New York: Arno, 1976.
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