Medical women and Victorian fiction /

Medical women and Victorian fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swenson, Kristine, 1966-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women physicians in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in Literature > Great Britain.
History of Nursing > Great Britain.
History, 19th Century > Great Britain.
Physicians, Women > history > Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Medical women old and new
  • Angels of mercy
  • Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse
  • Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor
  • The new woman doctor novel
  • Medical women and imperial fiction.