UID:
edocfu_9959235196902883
Format:
1 online resource (304 p.)
ISBN:
1-4696-8393-8
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979-88-908800-8-6
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1-4696-0644-5
Series Statement:
Studies in social medicine
Content:
In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the ""woman question,"" a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the profession. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), a physician from New York, worked to prove them wrong and argued that social restrictions, not biology, threatened female health. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America is the first full-length biography of Mar
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Conversions of youth -- On the borderland : a medical and political education in Paris -- Science and social emancipation -- Fighting science with science -- A medical marriage -- Highly evolved organisms -- Epilogue : a gauze veil.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-5947-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3283-9
Language:
English
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