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Author Moscucci, Ornella.

Title The science of woman : gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929 / Ornella Moscucci
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Description x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge history of medicine
Cambridge history of medicine.
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.
Obstetrics -- England -- London -- History.
Gynecology.
History of Medicine.
Obstetrics.
SUBJECT England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
LC no. 89007076
ISBN 0521327415
052144795X (paperback)