The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

Lydia Reeder

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied themAfter Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded ...

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