Martha H. Verbrugge, Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 297, illus., £25.00/$29.95.

Heather Munro Prescott

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Martha H. Verbrugge, Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 297, illus., £25.00/$29.95.

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Information: Medical History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 264 - 265

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Martha H. Verbrugge, Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 297, illus., £25.00/$29.95.

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