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Women gain a place in medicine.

Traces the struggles of five women in the nineteenth century -- Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey, Isabel Thorne, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans -- as they fought to make medical education available to females.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lutzker, Edythe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1969]
Series:History of science.
Subjects:
Women in medicine > History > Juvenile literature.
Women physicians > History > Juvenile literature.
Women in medicine > History.
Women as physicians > History.
Description
Summary:Traces the struggles of five women in the nineteenth century -- Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey, Isabel Thorne, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans -- as they fought to make medical education available to females.
Physical Description:160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: pages 157-158.