The nature of their bodies : women and their doctors in Victorian Canada /
In 1864 a woman was admitted to the Toronto asylum and diagnosed as suffering from 'mania, ' a not uncommon diagnosis for women, a step beyond 'hysteria.' The cause cited by doctors for the patient's insanity was lactation. This was one of the scores of cases cited by Wendy...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press
©1991.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442681811 |