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The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

By Joan Cassell

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years...Show more

Medical profession
Doctor / patient relationship

Book details

ISBN

9780674004078

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

Format

Paperback

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