Format:
1 online resource (311 pages)
ISBN:
9780807877326
Content:
German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In Science Has No Sex, Arleen Tuchman examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day. At a time when most women physicians laid claim to "female" qualities of care and nurturance to justify their professional choice, Zakrzewska insisted that all physicians, regardless of gender, should depend upon the rational faculties developed through training in the natural sciences. She viewed science as a democratizing tool--anyone could master science, she asserted, and therefore the doors to the elite profession of medicine should be opened to all.Shedding light on the changes that radically transformed medicine in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman's analysis also demonstrates how Zakrzewska's activism is important to the ongoing debate over the relationship between science and sex.
Content:
Cover Page -- Science Has No Sex -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Aspiring Bourgeoisie -- 2 Master Midwife -- 3 This Land of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity -- 4 The First Hospital for Women and Children -- 5 Fashioning a Home -- 6 Writing Autobiography -- 7 The Standard of the School Was below Par -- 8 On Hospitals -- 9 The Hospital in Transformation -- 10 Scientific Medicine at the New England Hospital -- 11 The World Changes -- 12 I Wish to Have My Own Way in Taking Leave -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- STUDIES IN SOCIAL MEDICINE.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807830208
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807830208
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=837901
