| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. By Arleen Marcia Tuchman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 336 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-3020-8 .)
Arleen Marcia Tuchman's meticulously researched biography of Marie Zakrzewska makes a valuable contribution to the history of women in nineteenth-century American medicine. Zakrzewska's life has earned some discussion in recent studies, but there has been no biography since Agnes Vietor's 1924 A Woman's Quest: The Life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Given the major role Zakrzewska played in opening doors for women in U.S. medicine, a new biography is long overdue.	1
Zakrzewska was born in Berlin in 1829 to a middle-class family. Her father was politically active, and as a result his civil servant position and wages were not always certain. To help the family, Zakrzewska's mother became a midwife, and at twenty, Zakrzewska followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming a student at the Berlin Charité hospital. Within a few years, she was the head midwife, charged with teaching other students, and she was active in efforts to raise the status of midwives.	. . .

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