Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America by Carla Bittel

Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America

Carla Bittel

328 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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, ...

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