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The heart specialist : a novel
Title:
The heart specialist : a novel
ISBN:
9781569479452
Publication Information:
New York : Soho Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
325 p. ; 22 cm.
General 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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