Title Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford

Published New York : St. Martin's Press ; London : Macmillan, 1998

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WATERFT HEALTH	610.9034 Bas/Pap		AVAILABLE
MELB	610.9034 Bas/Pap		AVAILABLE

Description xvii, 188 pages ; 23 cm Series Studies in gender history Studies in gender history. Contents 1. Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health -- 2. Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse -- 3. 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse -- 4. Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s -- 5. Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health -- 6. Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 7. Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century. Feminist theory. Gender identity -- History -- 19th century. Social medicine -- History -- 19th century. Sex role -- History -- 19th century. Women in medicine -- History -- 19th century. LC no. 97028323 ISBN 0312210388 0333682483 0333777964

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