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Article: Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2003
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Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. By Susan Wells (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Madison Press, 2002. xii plus 312pp.).
The literature on women in American medicine and science has grown substantially in the past quarter-century. But Out of the Dead House is, to my knowledge, the first book-length study by a rhetorician of the "registers," tropes, and other rhetorical strategies employed in women physicians' writing. Susan Wells, a professor of English and a rhetorician by training, has given us a close reading of the senior medical theses, journal articles, commencement addresses, celebratory speeches, and ...