Harriot Kezia Hunt was a pioneer in a number of ways. The first
woman to establish a successful medical practice in the United
States, she began seeing patients in Boston in 1835 and promoted a
new method of treatment by listening to women's troubles or their
""heart histories."" Her unsuccessful efforts to attend lectures at
Harvard's Medical School galvanized her activism in the woman's
rights movement. During the 1850s she played a prominent role in
the annual woman's rights conventions and was the first woman in
Massachusetts to publicly protest the injustice of taxing
propertied women while denying them the franchise. In this first
comprehensive, full-length biography of Hunt, Myra C. Glenn shows
how this single woman from a working-class Boston home became a
successful physician and noted reformer, illuminating the struggle
for woman's rights and the fractious and gendered nature of
medicine in antebellum America.
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