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SUMMARY:Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledg
 e in early modern Germany - Alisha Rankin (Trinity College\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20071101T163000Z
DTEND:20071101T180000Z
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:A number of learned physicians in sixteenth-century Germany sa
 ng the praises of a particular type of healer: a gentlewoman who made medi
 cinal remedies and handed them out to the sick poor (also helping ill aris
 tocrats and patricians in the bargain). This paper examines the topos of t
 he gentlewoman-healer\, arguing that aristocratic women gained respect as 
 medical practitioners not in spite of their gender\, but because of it. Pa
 rticularly\, it focuses on gentlewomen's reliance on experience and empiri
 cal observation to confirm the success of their medical remedies\, categor
 ies that overlapped with a new interest in observation in learned medical 
 spheres.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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