BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Talks & Lectures DESCRIPTION:In her mid-eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript\, Eliza beth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold str okes of her pen. Paschall was a widowed Philadelphia Quaker merchant who ra n a dry goods business. She was also well known in her community as a skill ed healer. Friends\, kin\, neighbors\, and strangers sought her health care advice. Although women’s healing work can be difficult for historians to r ecover\, Paschall’s detailed medical recipe book reveals her participation in medical and scientific networks that imbued her remedies with multiple l ayers of authority. She recorded remedies from Indigenous\, white\, and Bla ck lay healers as well as from physicians and naturalists. Paschall also ch ecked out medical and scientific books from the Library Company of Philadel phia that informed the chemical\, physiological\, and anatomical bases for her medical treatments. Through her self-directed studies\, documented obse rvations\, and medical experiments\, Paschall embraced the emerging authori ty of science. In this presentation based on my book\, Women Healers: Gende r\, Authority\, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia\, I argue that women wer e not only essential health care providers\, they were also on the frontlin es of grassroots medical and scientific knowledge production. \n\nSusan Bra ndt is a lecturer in the history department at the University of Colorado\, Colorado Springs. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke Universi ty and her PhD in History from Temple University. Brandt completed a fellow ship at the University of Pennsylvania McNeil Center for Early American Stu dies. Brandt’s dissertation on women healers was awarded the 2016 Lerner-Sc ott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. Women's History by the Organization of American Historians. She has published an article in Early American Studies and a chapter in Barbara Oberg\, ed.\, Women in the Ameri can Revolution: Gender\, Politics\, and the Domestic World. She revised a c hapter on early Pennsylvania in the forthcoming second edition of Pennsylva nia: A History of the Commonwealth. Brandt’s book\, Women Healers: Gender\, Authority\, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (Penn Press\, 2022) receive d Honorable Mention for the First Book Award\, granted by the Library Compa ny of Philadelphia. Prior to pursuing a career in history\, Brandt worked a s a nurse practitioner.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Health\, Medic ine\, and Society Program. DTEND:20251105T223000Z DTSTAMP:20260510T052611Z DTSTART:20251105T213000Z GEO:40.608261;-75.377857 LOCATION:STEPS Building\, 101 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Gipson: Putting Science to Work: Women Healers’ Pursuit of Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia with Susan H. Brandt UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50702367145962 URL:https://eventscalendar.lehigh.edu/event/gipson-putting-science-to-work- women-healers-pursuit-of-medical-knowledge-in-eighteenth-century-philadelph ia-with-susan-h-brandt END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR