Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt: Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman's Rights Advocate

by Myra C Glenn and Myra C. Glenn

Harriot Kezia Hunt was a pioneer in a number of ways. The first woman to establish a successful medical practice in the United States, she began seeing patients in Boston in 1835 and promoted a new method of treatment by listening to women's troubles or their "heart histories." Her unsuccessful efforts to attend lectures at Harvard's Medical School galvanized her activism in the woman's rights movement. During the 1850s she played a prominent role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343760
• ISBN13: 9781625343765
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher