Body failure
Subtitle: medical views of women, 1900-1950
By: Wendy Mitchinson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781442646261; 9781442614314
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; History; Women patients; Physician and patient; Medicine; Women's Health; History, 20th Century; Physician-Patient Relations; Women's Health Services
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: Woman's Place; title: Growing Up and Facing Puberty; title: "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation; title: Understanding Sexuality; title: Advice on Marriage and Motherhood; title: "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility; title: Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion; title: "The mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology; title: The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat; title: The Mind's Health; title: Menopause: The End of Womanhood.