Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi
Author: Mary Putnam Jacobi
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
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Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Carla Bittel
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1469606445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the profession. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), a physician from New York, worked to prove them wrong and argued that social restrictions, not biology, threatened female health. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America is the first full-length biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi, the most significant woman physician of her era and an outspoken advocate for women's rights. Jacobi rose to national prominence in the 1870s and went on to practice medicine, teach, and conduct research for over three decades. She campaigned for co-education, professional opportunities, labor reform, and suffrage--the most important women's rights issues of her day. Downplaying gender differences, she used the laboratory to prove that women were biologically capable of working, learning, and voting. Science, she believed, held the key to promoting and producing gender equality. Carla Bittel's biography of Jacobi offers a piercing view of the role of science in nineteenth-century women's rights movements and provides historical perspective on continuing debates about gender and science today.
Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi
Author: Mary (Putnam) Jacobi
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781258135942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, 1842-1906, Was An American Physician, Writer, Suffragist, And Was The First Woman To Become A Member Of The Faculte De Medecine De Paris. Daughter Of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, She Organized The Association For The Advancement Of The Medical Education Of Women And Is Considered The Foremost Female Physician Of Her Era. She Was Married To Dr. Abraham Jacobi, Who Is Often Referred To As The Father Of American Pediatrics.
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-century America
Author: Carla Jean Bittel
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0807832839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and th
The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation
Author: Mary Putnam Jacobi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-08-24
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 3385564999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Out of the Dead House
Author: Susan Wells
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0299171736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. 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. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.
Constructing Paris Medicine
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9004333282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Paris Clinical School of the nineteenth century has long been recognized as an important turning point in the development of modern scientific medicine. In this volume of essays, leading scholars take a fresh look at the meaning and significance of the Paris clinic for the history of medicine and reassess the analysis of the two most noted authors on the topic in the twentieth century, Erwin H. Ackernecht and Michel Foucault. The contributors offer new insights into the development and influence of Paris medicine and challenge many aspects of accepted interpretation. Their research opens the way for new areas of investigation in understanding major transitions in medicine
Against the Spirit of System
Author: John Harley Warner
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-11-12
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780801878213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine, bringing fundamental changes in understanding disease and attitudes toward the human body as an object of scientific knowledge. Between the 1810s and the 1860s, hundreds of Americans studied in Parisian hospitals and dissection rooms, and then applied their new knowledge to advance their careers at home and reform American medicine. By reconstructing their experiences and interpretations, by comparing American with English depictions of French medicine, and by showing how American memories of Paris shaped the later reception of German ideals of scientific medicine, Warner reveals that the French impulse was a key ingredient in creating the modern medicine American doctors and patients live with today. Impressed by the opportunity to learn through direct hands-on physical examination and dissection, many American students in Paris began to decry the elaborate theoretical schemes they held responsible for the degraded state of American medicine. These reformers launched an empiricist crusade "against the spirit of system," which promised social, economic, and intellectual uplift for their profession. Using private diaries, family letters, and student notebooks, and exploring regionalism, gender, and class, Warner draws readers into the world of medical Americans while investigating tensions between the physician's identity as scientist and as healer.
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
Author: Radcliffe College
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 2172
ISBN-13: 9780674627345
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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-08-12
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 151280682X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.
