Cover: The Woman in the Surgeon's Body, from Harvard University PressCover: The Woman in the Surgeon's Body in PAPERBACK

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

Add to Cart

Product Details

PAPERBACK

$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674004078

Publication Date: 10/16/2000

Short

280 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

World

Related Subjects

  • 1. What’s an Anthropologist Doing Studying Surgeons?
  • 2. Bodies of Difference
  • 3. Telling Stories
  • 4. Women Leading
  • 5. Forging the Iron Surgeon
  • 6. The Gender of Care
  • 7. A Greedy Institution
  • 8. A Worst-Case Scenario
  • 9. Surgeons in This Day and Age
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

Recent News

From Our Blog

Jacket, What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War, by Sarah Wagner, from Harvard University Press

Remembering Our Veterans during a Pandemic

Social distancing will make this Memorial Day quite different from what we are used to. Sarah Wagner, author of What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War, shows the way she’s chosen to remember and honor veterans during these challenging times. Dispatch from DC: Memorial Day weekend in the nation’s capital will be different this year. No motorcycles rumbling around the Nati…

‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’

The digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.