| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5 | The History Cooperative

Rebecca J. Tannenbaum. The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 179. $34.95.
Rebecca J. Tannenbaum takes as her principal theme women's practice of medicine in early New England households and communities. She posits that healing work created community networks and gave practitioners access to authority, both formal and informal. While this argument is not new, Tannenbaum provides interesting anecdotal material that reinforces previous studies by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Mary Beth Norton, and Gloria Main that have focused on the intersection of gender, healing, and community in early New England.	1
This book is divided into two sections: four chapters on "community" and two on "authority." In the first section, Tannenbaum explores medical theories in seventeenth-century England and New England, everyday medical care administered by Anglo-American women within their own New England households, community networks that formed around women's healing work, and the healing care expected of elite women. In the second, she describes women healers as court witnesses and enforcers of community standards, and the formal occupations of paid medical healers, especially female doctors who commanded considerable respect and influence in seventeenth-century Massachusetts towns. A final chapter focuses on changes in medical theory and practice between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.	. . .

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