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245 1 0 _aWomen healers and physicians :
_bclimbing a long hill /
_cLilian R. Furst, editor.
246 1 8 _aWomen healers & physicians
260 _aLexington, Ky. :
_bUniversity Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)1997.
300 _a1 online resource (286 pages)
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1: BETWEEN MAGIC AND MEDICINE; 1. Medieval German Women and the Power of Healing; 2. Between Magic and Medicine: Medieval Images of the Woman Healer; 3. Women, Medicine, and the Law in Boccaccio's Decameron; 4. Women Healers and the Power to Disease in Late Medieval Spain; 5. Where Have You Gone, Margaret Kennix?: Seeking the Tradition of Healing Women in English Renaissance Drama; 6. The Blues, Healing, and Cultural Representation in Contemporary African-American Women's Literature.
505 0 0 _aPART 2: THE EMERGENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM7. Women Doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire; Terminology; Status and Training; Practice; Metrodora; SOURCES; 8. They Met in Zurich: Nineteenth-Century German and Russian Women Physicians; The First Woman Medical Graduate of the University of Zurich; Remembering the Russian Women Medical Students; German Feminists Counter Arguments that Women Are Incapable of Scientific Work; Russian Reformers Attempt to Educate Medical Women in Their Own Country; Russian Medic-Midwives and Feldschers Open Career Paths for Women Doctors.
505 0 0 _aWomen Physicians Confront Oppressions in Capitalism and PatriarchyWomen Physicians as Agents for Social Change; Advocates and Supporters of Women's Medical Practices; Cultural Constructs Influencing Popular Acceptance of Women Physicians; 9. The Making of a Woman Surgeon: How Mary Dixon Jones Made a Name for Herself in Nineteenth-Century Gynecology; 10. Separatist Health: Changing Meanings of Women's Hospitals in Australia and England, c. 1870-1920; The Hospitals; A Critique of Male Medicine; Women's Philanthropy; Women's Advancement and Social Reform; Maternalism.
505 0 0 _a11. Halfway Up the Hill: Doctresses in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction12. ""Leaving the Private House"": Women Doctors in Virginia Woolf's Life and Art; Notes on Contributors; Index.
520 0 _aWomen have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside the household. In this provocative anthology, twelve essays by historians and literary scholars explore the work of women as healers and physicians. The essays range across centuries, nations, and cultures to focus on the ideological and practical obstacles women have faced in the world of medicine. Each examines the situation of women healers in a particular time and place through cases that are emblematic of large.
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650 0 _aWomen in medicine
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650 1 2 _aPhysicians, Women
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655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aFurst, Lilian R.,
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