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History
of Science & Medicine | Affiliated Faculty |
 Rebecca
Tannenbaum
Lecturer of History
Education
- Wesleyan University, B.A., 1984
- Yale University, Ph.D., 1997
Research Interests
Colonial America, especially women's history and
the history of medicine; History of women's health;
history of the family
Work in progress
A cultural history of biological motherhood in America,
from the Colonial period through the mid-nineteenth
century
 Selected
Publications
Books
- The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine
in Colonial New England, Cornell University
Press, 2002.
Articles
- "Elizabeth Drinker's Female Line: Mothers, Daughters,
and Kinship In Eighteenth Century America" in
Andrea O'Reilly, ed., Feminist Mothering,
forthcoming, SUNY press, 2005.
- "The Housewife as Healer: Medicine as Women's
Work in Colonial New England" Annual Proceedings
of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife,
26 2003.
- "Mary Hale and Ann Edmonds: Gender, Women's
Work, and Health in Colonial Massachusetts," in
Eric Arnesen, ed., The Human Tradition in American
Labor History, Scholarly Resources, 2002.
- "What is Best to be Done for these Fevers: Elizabeth
Davenport's Medical Practice in New Haven Colony"
The New England Quarterly, June: 265-284,
1997.
- "Earnestness, Temperance, Industry: The Definitions
and Uses of Professional Character Among Nineteenth
Century American Physicians" J. Hist. Med.
Allied Sci. 49: 251-283, 1994.
rebecca.tannenbaum@yale.edu
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