Mary Putnam Jacobi & the politics of medicine in nineteenth-century America / Carla Bittel.
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Studies in social medicine.
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Main Collection
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R692.J33 B58 2009 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |