The heart specialist /
Rothman, Claire, 1958-
The heart specialist / by Claire Holden Rothman. - England : Oneworld Publications, 2011. - 325 p. ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Canada : Cormorant Books, 2009.
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.
9781851687947 RM41.95
Women physicians--fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
Montreal (Quebec)--Fiction.
The heart specialist / by Claire Holden Rothman. - England : Oneworld Publications, 2011. - 325 p. ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Canada : Cormorant Books, 2009.
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.
9781851687947 RM41.95
Women physicians--fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
Montreal (Quebec)--Fiction.