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<p>In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. <i>Out of the Dead House</i> rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Out of the Dead House</i> also documents the way

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Author

Susan Wells

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299171735

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, History, Sociology