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The cure for women : Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever /

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to univ...

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Main Author:	Reeder, Lydia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, [2024].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Jacobi, Mary Putnam, > 1842-1906. Women > Health and hygiene > United States > History > 19th century. Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century. Sex differences > History > 19th century. Women physicians > United States > Biography. Women physicians > New York (State) > Biography. Medical education > United States > History > 19th century. Women in medicine > History > 19th century.

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