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Science Has No Sex - The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. (Paperback, New edition)
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Science Has No Sex - The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in Social Medicine
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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 Science Has No Sex,
Arleen Tuchman 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.
Shedding light on the changes that radically transformed medicine
in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman's analysis also
demonstrates how Zakrzewska's activism is important to the ongoing
debate over the relationship between science and sex.
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