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The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

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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

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