THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO THE PROFESSIONS AND THE DISCIPLINES

Domestic Healing and Other Lay Practices (1679-1719)


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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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