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

  • Wells, Susan, 1947-
Date:
[2001], ©2001
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

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

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CBW.6.AA8
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0299171701
  • 0299171744
  • 0299171000
  • 0299171043