Women and modern medicine / / edited by Lawrence Conrad and Anne Hardy.

• Superior document: Wellcome series in the history of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-; Hardy, Anne, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica 61.
• 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.

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...