| Acknowledgements | v. |
Chapter 1
| Introduction: Harvesting a History of Women Healers
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| Reforming Health Care | 4 |
| History of Women | 7 |
| Essentially Nurses | 11 |
| A Needle in the Haystack of History | 13 |
| Three Groups of Women Nurses | 20 |
| Cultural Diplomacy on the Home Front | 24
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| The Global Tapestry of Herbalism | 28 |
| The Roots of American Nursing
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| Harvesting History - Stage I: Gathering In | 31 |
| Chapter 2 | Mid-Nineteenth Century American Health Care | 33
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| The Health Care System of the Regulars | 34
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| Heroic Medicine | 39
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| Health Reform and Jacksonian Democracy | 41
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| Opposition Within the Ranks of the Regulars | 47
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| The Empirics | 49
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| Thomsonians - Leading the Empirics | 51
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| Chapter 3 | The Mid-Nineteenth Century Patient: Herbs, Advice Books and Medical Freedom | 63
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| A Turning Point in Medical Freedom | 67
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| Self-Care and Cultural Authority | 70
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| The Literary Legend of the Advice Movement | 75
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| The Regulars - Contribution to the Advice Movement | 81
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| National Self-Care | 84
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| Botanical Advice - Herbals | 86
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| The American Patent Medicine Industry | 90
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| Chapter 4 | The Mid-Nineteenth Century Nurse: Home, Herbs, and Women's Healing Networks | 97
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| Mid-Nineteenth Century American Domestic Culture | 99
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| Women's Labor | 102
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| Woman as Nurse | 103
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| Women as Invalids and Healers | 106
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| Recipes for Healing | 109
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| Gathering and Networking | 112
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| The Mid-Nineteenth Century Nurse | 116
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| The Nurse-Herbalists | 118
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| "Professional" Nurses | 122
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| Sick Room Management Expertise | 126
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| Harvesting History - Stage II: Sifting and Sorting | 133
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| Comparative Timeline | 136
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Chapter 5
| Herbs and the Shaker Infirmary and Community Nurses | 137
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| Shaker Health Beliefs | 140
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| Shaker Nurses' Education and Work | 146
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| Botanical Therapies and Receipts | 162
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| The Shaker Herb Industry | 169
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| American Indian Herbalism and the Shakers | 177
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| Herbal Expertise | 182
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| Chapter 6 | Herbs and the Pioneer Nurses and Midwives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 185
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| LDS Health Belief | 186
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| LDS Nurses' Education and Work | 195
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| Botanical Therapies and Receipts | 199
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| LDS Thomsonians and Nurse-Herbalists | 205
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| American Indian Herbalism and the Latter-day Saints | 225
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| Continuing the Tradition | 231
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Chapter 7
| Herbs and the Sisters of Charity and Early American Hospitals
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| Botanical Therapies and the Daughters of Charity | 234
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| The American Sisters of Charity | 243
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| Connecting with the Regulars | 249
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| The Botanical Therapies and Instruction Books | 253
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| Health Beliefs of the American SOC Nurses | 263
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| The Reputation of the Sisters of Charity | 269
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| Integration of Remedies | 277
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| Harvesting History - Stage III: Processing
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| Chapter 8 | The Integration of the Spheres
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| Nurse Herbalists' Expertise | 286
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| Herbal Diplomacy | 291
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| A Tiered System of Healthcare | 301
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| Healing Networks | 304
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| Nurse Autonomy | 311
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Conclusion
| The Future of Herbal Diplomacy: Progress, Nostalgia, and Process
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| The Integrated Turtle Mind | 317
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| Progress | 319
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| Botanical Nostalgia' | 333
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| Plant-Like Gentleness | 337
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Glossary
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| Bibliography |
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