British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918 by Claire Brock

British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

Claire Brock

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nonfiction health history
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When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In...

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