num_pages: 192
description: Offers a fictional version of the life of Hanaoka Seishu, an eighteenth century Japanese doctor who introduced the use of anesthetics and performed the first breast cancer operation in 1805
language: English
title: The Doctor's Wife
titlecomplete: The Doctor's Wife (Japan's Women Writers)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Asian Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 740
publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc