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The Nature of their Bodies : Women and their Doctors in Victorian Canada /

In 1864 a woman was admitted to the Toronto asylum and diagnosed as suffering from 'mania, ' a not uncommon diagnosis for women, a step beyond 'hysteria.' The cause cited by doctors for the patient's insanity was lactation. This was one of the scores of cases cited by Wendy...

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Autor principal: Mitchinson, Wendy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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por Mitchinson, Wendy
Publicado 1991
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