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Anie
Nov 03, 2019 rated it really liked it
It's a short pamphlet, so not as chock full of in text citations as I usually prefer - but still, this is a good and intelligible introduction to the history of female health workers in America. If you want more on this ilk, check out Ehrenreich and English's other works. ...more
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Jan 27, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Excellent short look at how women have progressively been kept out of medicine through is professionalisation and class-gender constructs of work
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