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

About the author

Susan Wells is professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity and The Dialectics of Representation.

Summary

At the end of the 19th century, 2000 women physicians formed a significant scientific community in the US. This book rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Wells
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.1996
• EAN: 9780299171742
• ISBN: 978-0-299-17174-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Series: Nineteenth-Century Women Physi; Nineteenth-Century Women Physi
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General