Women and modern medicine / / edited by Lawrence Conrad and Anne Hardy.
Modernising scientific medicine emerged in the nineteenth century as an increasingly powerful agent of change in a context of complex social developments. Women's lives and expectations in particular underwent a transformation in the years after 1870 as education, employment opportunities and p...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2001. |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages). |
| Notes: | "The studies comprising this volume were originally presented at a Wellcome Institute symposium on 'Women and modern medicine' convened ... on 10-11 November 1994 ... concerning the role of women in medicine, as both patients and practitioners"--Preface. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Anne Marie Rafferty
- Women and Macho Medicine / Ann Dally
- ‘Colonising Women’: Female Medical Practice in Colonial India 1880-1890 / Anne Witz
- From Bedpan to Revolution: Qiu Jin and Western Nursing / Bridie Andrews
- ‘Run by Women, (mainly) for Women’: Medical Women’s Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 / Mary Ann Elston
- Women Doctors and Gender Identity in Weimar Germany (1918–1933) / Cornelie Usborne
- A Suitable job for a Woman: Women Doctors and Birth Control to the Inception of the NHS / Lesley A. Hall
- Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams’ Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast / J. Stanton
- Smooth, Speedy, Painless, and Still Midwife Delivered?: The Dutch Midwife and Childbirth Technology in the Early Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland
- Ergot to Ergometrine:An Obstetric Renaissance? / E.M. Tansey
- ‘Andromeda Freed from her Chains’: Attitudes towards Women and the Oral Contraceptive Pill, 1950-1970 / Lara Marks
- Pioneers of Infertility Treatment / Naomi Pfeffer
- An Anatomy of Desire: Gender and Difference in Sex Therapy / Cassandra Lorius.