Description |
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Cambridge history of medicine |
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Cambridge history of medicine.
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Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part I. The Problem of Femininity: 1. Woman's sexuality and population concerns -- 2. Woman's place in nature -- 3. Nature and the environment -- 4. A theory of femininity -- 5. Physiology and social roles -- Part II. Men-Midwives and Medicine: The Origins of a Profession: 6. Midwives and accoucheurs -- 7. The 'obstetric revolution' and eighteenth-century medical politics -- 8. The nineteenth century: obstetrics, gynaecology and general practice -- 9. Educated accoucheurs -- Part III. The Rise of the Women's Hospitals: 10. Hospitals, specialists and nineteenth-century medicine -- 11. The first women's hospital -- 12. A moral institution -- 13. The Chelsea Hospital for Women -- Part IV. Woman and her diseases: 14. The pathology of femininity -- 15. Surgical analysis -- 16. Penetrating private parts: the 'speculum question' -- 17. Precept and practice -- Part V. The 'Unsexing' of Women: 18. Early controversies -- 19. A question of values -- 20. Pathological pregnancies -- 21. The triumph of ovariotomy -- 22. The Imlach affair -- Part VI. From the British Gynaecological Society to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: 23. The 'handcuffed obstetrician' -- 24. The Meadows incident -- 25. A British gynaecological society -- 26. A college of obstetricians and gynaecologists -- 27. Restructuring the profession -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography |
Analysis |
England Gynaecology & obstetrics, history |
Notes |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Oxford, 1984) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-271) and index |
Subject |
Gynecology -- England -- London -- History.
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Obstetrics -- England -- London -- History.
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Gynecology.
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History of Medicine.
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Obstetrics.
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SUBJECT |
England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 |
LC no. |
89007076 |
ISBN |
0521327415 |
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052144795X (paperback) |
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