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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuchman, Arleen, 1956-

Series:

Studies in social medicine.

Studies in social medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women physicians--United States--Biography.

Women physicians.

Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth), 1829-1902.

Zakrzewska, Marie E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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. At a time when most women physicians laid claim to ""female"" qualities of care and nurturance to justify their professional choice, Zakrzewska insis

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and index.

ISBN:

9798890880291

9780807877326

0807877328

OCLC:

82463530