Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine

by Susan Wells

Book Overview

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299171701
• ISBN13: 9780299171704
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"