Women's medicine / / Caroline Rusterholz.

• VerfasserIn: Rusterholz, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, United Kingdom : : Manchester University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) :; illustrations

Women's medicine highlights British female doctors' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. Illuminating women doctors' agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1 Giving birth control medical credentials in Britain, 1920-70 -- 2 Sexual disorders and infertility, expanding the work of the clinics -- 3 Medicalizing birth control at the international conferences (1920-37), a British-French comparison -- 4 Building a transnational movement for family planning 1927-70 -- 5 Testing IUDs, a transnational journey of expertise -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.