British women surgeons and their patients, 1860 -1918 / / Claire Brock.
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cult...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2017). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Disapproval, Curiosity, Amusement, Obstinate Hostility? Women and Surgery, 1860-1918
- From Controversy to Consolidation: Surgery at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1902
- The Experiences of Female Surgical Patients at the Royal Free Hospital, 1903-1913
- Women Surgeons and the Treatment of Malignant Disease
- Inside the Theatre of War
- Operating on the Home Front, 1914-1918
- Conclusion.