A history of women in American anesthesiology

The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia

Volumn 9781461484417, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-203

  Calmes, Selma Harrison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia and history of women; Apgar score origin; Apgar, Virginia; Blackwell, Elizabeth; Women in anesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929692270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8441-7_16     Document Type: Chapter

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