| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Youth -- Medical studies -- Launching a career, 1811-1822 -- Obstetrical practice --The hospitals --The education of physicians --The middle years, 1822-1840 -- Puerperal fever -- Obstetrical anesthesia -- Social reform -- "Action of a man's whole nature," 1840-1854 -- The medical profession at mid-century -- Retirement and repose |
| Summary |
This first biography of the prominent obstetrician vividly depicts the life and career of a multi-faceted man and offers fresh perspectives on medicine, society, and women's reproductive lives in nineteenth-century America. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2002. With a new foreword by Scott Podolsky, M.D |
| Notes |
Reprint of 2002 edition with new foreword |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-377) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed May 21, 2019) |
| Subject |
Channing, Walter, 1786-1876.
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| SUBJECT |
Channing, Walter, 1786-1876
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Channing, Walter, 1786-1876. fast (OCoLC)fst00183120 |
| Subject |
Physicians -- Massachusetts -- Biography
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Midwifery -- Massachusetts -- History
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Obstetrics -- Massachusetts -- History
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Midwifery.
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Obstetrics.
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Physicians.
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Massachusetts.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Podolsky, Scott H., writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781555538767 |
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1555538762 |
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