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Author:

Skinner, Carolyn, 1977- author.

Title:

Women physicians and professional ethos in nineteenth-century America / Carolyn Skinner.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women physicians--United States--History--19th century.
Women in medicine--United States--History--19th century.
Women physicians--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Physicians, Women--history.
Professional Competence.
Education, Medical--history.
Women, Working--history.
Women's Rights--history.
History, 19th Century.
United States.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
HISTORY--United States--19th Century.
MEDICAL--History.
Women in medicine.
Women physicians.
Women physicians--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
United States.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Contents:

Debating the character of the woman physician -- Prescribing for society: women physicians' reform rhetoric -- Educating the public: women physicians' popular health advice -- Teaching women to talk about sex -- Developing collective ethos in medical editorial writing -- Revising the physician's ethos: women physicians' medical research.

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

ISBN:

0809333007
9780809333004

OCLC:

(OCoLC)840465518

LCCN:

2013021634

Locations:

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)