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.
• Other title: Introduction /; Women and Macho Medicine /; ‘Colonising Women’: Female Medical Practice in Colonial India 1880-1890 /; From Bedpan to Revolution: Qiu Jin and Western Nursing /; ‘Run by Women, (mainly) for Women’: Medical Women’s Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 /; Women Doctors and Gender Identity in Weimar Germany (1918–1933) /; A Suitable job for a Woman: Women Doctors and Birth Control to the Inception of the NHS /; Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams’ Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast /; Smooth, Speedy, Painless, and Still Midwife Delivered?: The Dutch Midwife and Childbirth Technology in the Early Twentieth Century /; Ergot to Ergometrine:An Obstetric Renaissance? /; ‘Andromeda Freed from her Chains’: Attitudes towards Women and the Oral Contraceptive Pill, 1950-1970 /; Pioneers of Infertility Treatment /; An Anatomy of Desire: Gender and Difference in Sex Therapy /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004333398
• ISSN: 0045-7183
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 political involvement extended their personal and gender horizons. For women, medicine came to offer not just treatment in the event of illness but the possibilities of participation in medical practise, of shaping social policies and political understandings, and of altering the biological imperatives of their bodies. The essays in this collection explore various ways in which women responded to these challenges and opportunities and sought to use the power of modernising Western medicine to further their individual and gender interests.