TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oates,Joyce Carol
TI  - Butcher: father of modern gyno-psychiatry 
SN  - 9780593537770
AV  - PS3565.A8 B88 2024
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20230622
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Phlebotomy
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Pregnant women
KW  - Pregnant people
KW  - homoit
KW  - Medical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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."--
ER  -