Science has no sex
Subtitle: the life of Marie Zakrzewska
By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman.
Series: Studies in social medicine
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Univ of North Carolina Pr; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780807830208
Subjects: Zakrzewska, Maries E., 1829-1902.; Zakrzewska, Marie E. 1829-1902.; Women physicians -- United States -- Biography.; Physicians, Women -- history -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In this book, the author examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day. At a time when most women physicians laid claim to "female" qualities of care and nurturance to justify their professional choice, Zakrzewska insisted that all physicians, regardless of gender, should depend upon the rational faculties developed through training in the natural sciences. She viewed science as a democratizing tool-anyone could master science, she asserted, and therefore the doors to the elite profession of medicine should be opened to all.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aspiring bourgeoisie; title: Master midwife; title: This land of liberty, equality, and fraternity; title: The first hospital for women and children; title: Fashioning a home; title: Writing autobiography; title: The standard of the school was below par; title: On hospitals; title: The hospital in transformation; title: Scientific medicine at the New England hospital; title: The world changes; title: I wish to have my own way in taking leave.