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British women surgeons and their patients, 1860 -1918 /

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cult...

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Main Author: Brock, Claire, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Women surgeons > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women surgeons > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women physicians > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women physicians > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Medical care.
World War, 1914-1918 > Women.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316911921
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