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The Covid-19 pandemic has focused our attention on frontline health care workers. In Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia, Susan Brandt  recovers women practitioners’ lives and essential medical work from the city’s founding that have been largely unexplored by historians.  In her talk, Brandt will discuss the importance of libraries, women’s education, and popular health movements in the development of women’s healing authority. She will describe how women healers participated actively in medical and scientific knowledge production while providing the bulk of medical care for early Philadelphians.

This is an in person event

Athenaeum Members Free

Non Members $15