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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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1991.
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