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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826925003321

Autore

Wells Susan <1947->

Titolo

Out of the dead house [[electronic resource] ] : nineteenth-century women physicians and the writing of medicine / / Susan Wells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001

ISBN

1-283-55037-7

9786613862822

0-299-17173-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

610/.82/097309034

Soggetti

Women physicians - United States

Women in medicine - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Out of the deadhouse -- Medical conversations and medical histories -- Invisible writing I: Ann Preston invents an institution -- Learning to write medicine -- Invisible writing II: Hannah Longshore and the borders of regularity -- Mary Putnam Jacobi: medicine as will and idea -- Forbidden sights: women and the visual economy of medicine.