Women in medicine in the long nineteenth century

• Titel: Women in medicine in the long nineteenth century
• Titelzusatz: volume II : medical women in fiction
• Mitwirkende: Brock, Claire [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Claire Brock
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 217 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Nineteenth-century science, technology and medicine sources
• ISBN: 978-1-003-26524-5
• DOI: doi:10.4324/9781003265245
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Reference
• K10plus-PPN: 1901000079
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women⁰́₉s entry into the medical profession, and their experiences once qualified. This volume broadens literary and cultural understanding of female doctors through the selection of sources which are less well-known or more difficult to find, as well as considering global examples or contexts. Byincluding sources which reveal both supportive and derogatory assessments, and by male and female authors, a wide range of opinions regarding women⁰́₉s efficacy as medical practitioners are considered.Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine