Mary Putnam Jacobi & the politics of medicine in nineteenth-century America
Title:
Mary Putnam Jacobi & the politics of medicine in nineteenth-century America
JLCTITLE245:
Carla Bittel.
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Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781469606446
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Abstract:
This is the first full-length biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), the most significant woman physician of her era and an outspoken advocate for women's rights. She campaigned for co-education, professional opportunities, labor reform, and suffrage--the most important women's rights issues of her day. Downplaying gender differences, she used the laboratory to prove that women were biologically capable of working, learning, and voting. Science, she believed, held the key to promoting and producing gender equality.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Variant Title:
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the politics of medicine in nineteenth-century America
Contents:
Conversions of youth -- On the borderland : a medical and political education in Paris -- Science and social emancipation -- Fighting science with science -- A medical marriage -- Highly evolved organisms -- Epilogue : a gauze veil.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.