Napoleon And the Woman Question
Subtitle: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, And Medical Law (Fashioning the Eighteenth Century)
Contributors: Susan P. Conner (Foreword)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780896725591
Subjects: Europe - France; Women's Health - General; History; Medical; Consumer Health; 19th century; France; Health and hygiene; Medical jurisprudence; Medicine; Women
Description: "Examination of predominantly primary sources focuses on discourses of women and women's issues in light of the prevailing view of the relationship between the physical and the moral in feminine bodies and minds. Burton discusses France's first national system of midwifery education, women's medicine and surgery, and medical law"--Provided by publisher.