Female Patients in Early Modern Britain
Subtitle: Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781409438779
Subjects: Women, diseases; Women, great britain; Physician and patient
Description: "Despite the prevalence of females amongst many physicians' casebooks and the existence of sex-based differences in the consultations, diagnoses and treatments of patients, there is no evidence to indicate that either the health or the medical care of females was distinctly disadvantaged by the actions of male practitioners. Instead, the diagnoses and treatments of women were premised on a much deeper and more nuanced understanding of the female body than has previously been implied within the historiography. In turn, their awareness and appreciation of the unique features of female anatomy and physiology meant that male practitioners were sympathetic and accommodating to the needs of individual female patients during this pivotal period in British medicine."--publisher website.