‘Prisoners of their own feebleness’: Women, nerves and western medicine—A historical overview
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 26 (12) , 1199-1208
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(88)90152-9
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