Susan H. Brandt Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Susan Hanket Brandt . University of Colorado, Colorado Springs . February 9, 2023.
2. Web site: Lerner-Scott Prize Winners . . February 9, 2023.
3. Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia . Elaine G.. Breslaw . . 2023 . 10.1093/shm/hkac058. subscription .
4. Web site: Susan H. Brandt, interview . Perspectives . Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine . August 10, 2022 . February 9, 2023 .