| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England. By Rebecca J. Tannenbaum. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8014-3826-8.)

Rebecca J. Tannenbaum analyzes the role of New England women in early colonial medicine, embracing broad definitions of medicine and practitioners:	1
If medicine is a system of caring for the sick that includes diagnosis, the making of medicines, and physical support and manipulation of the patient, then what most seventeenth-century practitioners did was indeed practice medicine. (p. x)
Female medical practitioners used their knowledge and skills to carve out their place in the community and to exercise their own authority.	. . .

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