Introduction: The romantic solution -- The rise of the experts -- Witches, healers, and gentleman doctors -- Science and the ascent of the experts -- The reign of the experts -- The sexual politics of sickness -- Microbes and the manufacture of housework -- The century of the child -- Motherhood as pathology -- The fall of the experts -- From masochistic motherhood to the sexual marketplace
Analysis
Maternal and infant welfare--United States--History
Medical ethics--United States--History
Women's health services--Social aspects--United States--History
Women's rights--United States--History
Women--United States--Social conditions
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1978
