LEADER 03833nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910970460003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613862822 010 $a9781283550376 010 $a1283550377 010 $a9780299171735 010 $a0299171736 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241271 035 $a(OCoLC)813844965 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594379 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607543 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11391904 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607543 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591027 035 $a(PQKB)10373253 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16472 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594379 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL386282 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445240 035 $a(Perlego)4390197 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241271 100 $a20000724d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOut of the dead house $enineteenth-century women physicians and the writing of medicine /$fSusan Wells 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299171704 311 08$a0299171701 311 08$a9780299171742 311 08$a0299171744 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 280-306) and index. 327 $aOut 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. 330 8 $aIn the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture. 606 $aWomen physicians$zUnited States 606 $aWomen in medicine$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aWomen physicians 615 0$aWomen in medicine$xHistory 676 $a610/.82/097309034 700 $aWells$b Susan$0298392 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970460003321 996 $aOut of the dead house$94351295 997 $aUNINA