| Description |
1 online resource (325 pages) |
| Note |
Originally published: Canada : Cormorant Books, 2009. |
| Summary |
Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things--microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests--who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all in a place and time inimical to intelligent women. Inspired by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first female physicians. |
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Women physicians -- Fiction.
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Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
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Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rothman, Claire, 1958- Heart specialist. New York : Soho Press, c2011 9781569479452 (DLC) 2011007814 (OCoLC)664668591 |
| ISBN |
9781569479469 (electronic bk.) |
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1569479461 (electronic bk.) |
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