What Is the Total Pattern of Our Western Civilization? Some Preliminary Observations
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Medicine and western civilization
heart. Margaret was not left in doubt about the risks, benefits and responsibilities of the rational, male education she was receiving. Her learning was to be of purely private benefit. She was warned not to pursue her academic interests to the detriment of those domestic duties for which nature had providentially formed her, or to reveal the extent of her learning to female friends or "ignoran...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Anthropologist
سال: 1946
ISSN: 0002-7294,1548-1433
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1946.48.3.02a00040