Body failure : medical views of women, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.

  • Mitchinson, Wendy
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

Physical description

xiii, 414 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (299-404) and index.

Contents

Woman's Place -- Growing Up and Facing Puberty -- "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation -- Understanding Sexuality -- Advice on Marriage and Motherhood -- "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility -- Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion -- "The mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology -- The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat -- The Mind's Health -- Menopause: The End of Womanhood.

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    History of Medicine
    UA.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9781442646261
  • 1442646268
  • 9781442614314
  • 1442614315