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(Studies in Social Medicine.) By Arleen Marcia Tuchman. 336 pp., illustrated. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-3020-8.

Do women lack an innate aptitude for science? This question was debated in Boston more than 150 years before the January 2005 conference at which Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard University, said it was worth considering. In this scholarly, engaging biography of Marie Zakrzewska, the first in more than 80 years, Arleen Tuchman untangles the complex life of a pioneering 19th-century physician who believed that men and women do not have different scientific abilities.

Tuchman draws on her earlier scholarship in German history to show how Zakrzewska's worldview was shaped by the secular German bourgeois society into which . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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