The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

by Lydia Reeder

"Valiant and timely ... 'The Cure for Women' reintroduces its subject as a hero for this moment." --The New York Times

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood--and the brilliant doctor who defied them

After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250284457
• ISBN13: 9781250284457
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"