02273cam a2200373 i 4500 1385404671 OCoLC 20250506163203.0 230417t20242024nyu 000 1 eng d 2023018108 9780593537770 (OCoLC)1385404671 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCF OCLCO IEB LJW OJ4 HEV UtOrBLW AJM PS3565.A8 B88 2024 813/.54 23/eng/20230622 Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author. 19847 Butcher : father of modern gyno-psychiatry / Joyce Carol Oates. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 331 pages ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. This is a work of fiction incorporating episodes from the lives of the historic J. Marion Sims, M.D. (1813-1883), "The Father of Modern Gynecology"; Silas Weir Mitchell, M.D. (1829-1914), "The Father of Medical Neurology"; and Henry Cotton, M.D. (1876-1933), Director of the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum, 1907-1930. "In the 1840s, a young man named Silas Weir begins practicing medicine in Pennsylvania. Though he is considered inept by family, neighbors, and even his mentor, Dr. Weir discovers he has a gift for phlebotomy, treating patients by bleeding them to purify their bodies. But when an experimental procedure goes horribly wrong, Dr. Weir is forced to start over, relocating his family to Trenton, New Jersey, and taking a position at the New Jersey State Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, in the hopes of proving his detractors wrong, Dr. Weir continues practicing dangerous procedures, and soon becomes infatuated with Brigit - a pregnant woman he treats - whom he tries to take her under his wing as an apprentice."-- Provided by publisher. Human experimentation in medicine Fiction. 14092 Psychiatric hospitals Fiction. 11243 Phlebotomy Fiction. 19848 Physicians Fiction. 6631 Pregnant women Fiction. 8819 Pregnant people. homoit. 19849 Medical fiction. lcgft. 5822 ddc BOOK 30615 30615 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2025-05-06 30.00 0 OATE 40357 2025-05-06 2025-05-06 BOOK 1