Susan Hanket Brandt is an American historian. The author of Woman Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (2022), she is a lecturer at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Biography

Susan Brandt received her undergraduate degree from Duke University, and then a Ph.D. from Temple University, in history.[1] Her dissertation on women healers, Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740–1830, won her the Lerner-Scott prize, awarded by the Organization of American Historians, in 2016.[2]

Brandt's monograph Woman Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2022.[3] The book investigates the contributions by women healers to healthcare in the greater Philadelphia area; for centuries, European, Native American, and African American women provided healthcare, though their work has largely gone unnoticed.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Susan Hanket Brandt". University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Lerner-Scott Prize Winners". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  3. ↑ Breslaw, Elaine G. (2023). "Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia". Social History of Medicine. doi:10.1093/shm/hkac058.
  4. ↑ "Susan H. Brandt, interview". Perspectives. Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. August 10, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
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