Out of the dead house : nineteenth-century women physicians and the writing of medicine / Susan Wells.

Madison ; London : University of Wisconsin Press, [2001], ©2001.

xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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

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.