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Women make up eight out of every ten healthcare workers in the United States. Yet they lag behind men when it comes to working in the roles of medical doctors and surgeons.
Why has healthcare become a professional field dominated by women, and yet women represent a minority of physicians and doctors who serve at the top of the healthcare field?
Susan H. Brandt, a historian and lecturer at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, seeks to find answers to these questions. In doing so, she takes us into the rich history of women healers with details from her book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/379
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Women make up eight out of every ten healthcare workers in the United States. Yet they lag behind men when it comes to working in the roles of medical doctors and surgeons.
Why has healthcare become a professional field dominated by women, and yet women represent a minority of physicians and doctors who serve at the top of the healthcare field?
Susan H. Brandt, a historian and lecturer at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, seeks to find answers to these questions. In doing so, she takes us into the rich history of women healers with details from her book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/379
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode 003: Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia
🎧 Episode 005: Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and Health
🎧 Episode 116: Disease & the Seven Years’ War
🎧 Episode 174: Yellow Fever in the Early American Republic
🎧 Episode 263: The Medical Imagination
🎧 Episode 273: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic
🎧 Episode 276: Benjamin Rush: Founding Father
🎧 Episode 301: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 1
🎧 Episode 302: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 2
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📨 Topic Request Form
WHEN YOU'RE READY
🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter
👩💻 BFW Listener Community
🌍 The History Explorers Club
LISTEN
🍎 Apple Podcasts
💚 Spotify
🎶 Amazon Music
🛜 Pandora
CONNECT
🦋 Liz on Bluesky
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