The heart specialist / Claire Holden Rothman.
- Rothman, Claire, 1958-
- Date:
- [2011], ©2011
- Books
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Description
Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things--microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests--who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all in a place and time inimical to intelligent women. Inspired by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first female physicians.
Publication/Creation
Oxford : OneWorld, [2011], ©2011.
Physical description
325 pages ; 20 cm
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Notes
Originally published: Canada : Cormorant Books, 2009.
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Location Status History of MedicineCBW.AIOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781851687947
- 1851687947