RT journal article
T1 The Double Feminine Nature and the Medical Gaze: Elsie Venner (1861)
A1 Rodríguez Pastor, Cristina
A2 Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
K1 Medical gaze
K1 affective hermeneutics
K1 female health
K1 nurse
K1 professionalization
AB Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny, written in 1861 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, is a singular novel. Written at a time when medicine was struggling to become a model of professionalization, its singularity lies in the fact that there are four doctors involved in the novel: its author, the narrator of the story and two main characters. Apart from this, out of the three main female characters in the novel, two of them sicken as a consequence of their disobedience to social and moral standards. The novel helps us explore some of the most important issues that were at the center of public debate in nineteenth century medicine: the supposedly pathological nature of female health, the complex relationship between doctor and patient, the consequences of crossing the borders of gender roles, the medical treatment of hysteria, the observational skills of the doctor, the role of the nurse and the threats to healthy reproduction.
SN 1133-309X
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38243
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38243
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-nov-2026