01213nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_140542 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 18.96 895.635 W324 Watanabe, Jun'ichi Beyond the blossoming fields Jun'ichi Watanabe ; Translated by Deborah Iwabuchi and Anna Isozaki Richmond, UK Alma books 2008 As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhoea from her husband, she suffers the ignominy of divorce. Forced to bear the humiliation of being treated by male doctors, she resolves to become a doctor herself in order to treat fellow female sufferers and spare them some of the shame she had to endure." "As more and more obstacles are placed before her, will she give in to social pressure or continue to fight against her world and her times?"--BOOK JACKET Women physicians,Nữ bác sĩ Japan,Nhật bản Huỳnh Mai Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ