| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. By Susan Wells. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii, 312 pp. Cloth, $57.95, ISBN 0-299-17170-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-299-17174-4.)

From a twentieth-century perspective, one of the most unexpected activities of Martha Ballard, a late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century midwife in frontier Maine, was her participation with local physicians in performing autopsies, even that of one of her own relatives who was in many ways a daughter to her. In her book, Susan Wells uses medical dissection as a factor with which to explore the history of nineteenth-century women physicians in the United States. Her book interprets the texts of women physicians, defining them as key historical documents. . . .

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