{"id":69,"date":"2013-02-02T19:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-11-21T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:21:11","slug":"social-healers-sickness-and-health-in-the-late-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/social-healers-sickness-and-health-in-the-late-18th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Healers, Sickness and Health in early America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next four class periods, we will explore ideas and historical practices around sickness, health and healing in early America, using 2 case studies: the Martha Ballard diary from Maine (1780s-1810s) and the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806).<\/p>\n

For each case study, the first class period will discuss the writings of a historian and give a general overview to the text, the time period, and the conclusions that scholars are able to draw from these sources. Then you’ll go to the original text and explore for yourself, and bring your findings, questions and conclusions to our second class discussion.<\/p>\n

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A page from Ballard’s diary<\/em><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n

This week, we’ll be working with the diary of Martha Ballard, a midwife and healer skilled in the arts of household production in rural present-day Maine just after the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

Mon 2\/4 <\/strong>– read an essay about Ballard as a “social healer” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, which is an excerpt from her 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Midwife’s Tale<\/i>, titled “1787: Exceeding Dangerously Ill” (PDF on Blackboard)<\/p>\n

Wed 2\/6 <\/strong>– explore the diary itself at DoHistory.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Mon 2\/11<\/strong> – UPDATE: No Class – Campus Closed due to snow removal.<\/span><\/strong> Read Volney Steele’s chapter from Bleed, Blister and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier<\/i>, titled “Lewis and Clark: Keelboat Physicians” (PDF on Blackboard)<\/p>\n

Wed 2\/13 <\/strong>– we will explore the journals themselves at the Online Lewis and Clark Journals Project<\/a> (University of Nebraska Lincoln)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the next four class periods, we will explore ideas and historical practices around sickness, health and healing in early America, using 2 case studies: the Martha Ballard diary from Maine (1780s-1810s) and the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). For each case study, the first class period will discuss the writings of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-spr13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}