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Science has no sex : the life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. / Arleen Marcia Tuchman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in social medicinePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807877326
  • 0807877328
  • 9781429453929
  • 1429453923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science has no sex.DDC classification:
  • 610.92 B 22
LOC classification:
  • R692 .T83 2006eb
NLM classification:
  • 2006 H-861
  • WZ 100
Online resources:
Contents:
Aspiring bourgeoisie -- Master midwife -- This land of liberty, equality, and fraternity -- The first hospital for women and children -- Fashioning a home -- Writing autobiography -- The standard of the school was below par -- On hospitals -- The hospital in transformation -- Scientific medicine at the New England hospital -- The world changes -- I wish to have my own way in taking leave.
Summary: German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829@-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In ###Science Has No Sex#, Arleen Tuchman examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-327) and index.

Aspiring bourgeoisie -- Master midwife -- This land of liberty, equality, and fraternity -- The first hospital for women and children -- Fashioning a home -- Writing autobiography -- The standard of the school was below par -- On hospitals -- The hospital in transformation -- Scientific medicine at the New England hospital -- The world changes -- I wish to have my own way in taking leave.

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German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829@-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In ###Science Has No Sex#, Arleen Tuchman examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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