Women and modern medicine
By: edited by Lawrence Conrad and Anne Hardy.
Contributors: Hardy, Anne, Dr.; Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-
Series: The Wellcome series in the history of medicine; Clio medica,; 61; Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;; 61.
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects; Sexism in medicine -- History; Women physicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Macho medicine / Ann Dally; title: "Colonizing women": female medical practice in colonial India, 1880-1890 / Anne Witz; title: From bedpan to revolution: Qui Jin and Western nursing / Bridie Andrews; title: "Run by women (mainly) for women": Medical Women's Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 / Mary Ann Elston; title: Women doctors and gender identity in Weimar Germany, 1819-1933 / Cornelie Usborne; title: A suitable job for a woman: women doctors and birth control to the inception of the NHS / Lesley A. Hall; title: Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams' discovery of kwashiorkor on the Gold Caost / Jennifer Stanton; title: Smooth, speedy, painless, and still midwife delivered?: the Dutch midwife and childbirth technology in the early twentieth century / Hilary Marland; title: Ergot to ergometrine: an obstetric renaissance? / E.M. Tansey; title: "Andromeda freed from her chains": attitudes towards women and the oral contraceptive pill, 1950-1970 / Lara Marks; title: Pioneers of infertility treatment / Naomi Pfeffer; title: An anatomy of desire: gender and difference in sex therapy / Cassandra Lorius.