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, England : : Cambridge University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: disapproval, curiosity, amusement, obstinate hostility? women and surgery, 1860-1918
- 1 From controversy to consolidation: surgery at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1902
- 2 The experiences of female surgical patients at the Royal Free Hospital, 1903-1913
- 3 Women surgeons and the treatment of malignant disease
- 4 Inside the theatre of war
- 5 Operating on the home front, 1914-1918
- Conclusion.