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Full Title

Body Failure Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 1st Edition

Author(s)

Wendy Mitchinson

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781442665286, 9781442614314

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada’s medical faculties, popular health literature, patient case records, and hospital annual reports, as well as interviews with women who lived during the period.

Each chapter examines events throughout a woman’s life cycle – puberty, menstruation, sexuality, marriage and motherhood – and the health problems connected to them – infertility, birth control and abortion, gynaecology, cancer, nervous disorders, and menopause. Mitchinson provides a sensitive understanding of the physician/patient relationship, the unease of many doctors about the bodies of their female patients, as well as overriding concerns about the relationship between female and male bodies. Throughout the book, Mitchinson takes care to examine the roles and agency of both patients and practitioners as diverse individuals.

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Body Failure Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 1st Edition

SKU: 9781442665279

Original price was: $54.00.Current price is: $24.99.

Access Body Failure Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 1st Edition Now. Discount up to 90%

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Additional information

Full Title

Body Failure Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 1st Edition

Author(s)

Wendy Mitchinson

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781442665279, 9781442614314

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada’s medical faculties, popular health literature, patient case records, and hospital annual reports, as well as interviews with women who lived during the period.

Each chapter examines events throughout a woman’s life cycle – puberty, menstruation, sexuality, marriage and motherhood – and the health problems connected to them – infertility, birth control and abortion, gynaecology, cancer, nervous disorders, and menopause. Mitchinson provides a sensitive understanding of the physician/patient relationship, the unease of many doctors about the bodies of their female patients, as well as overriding concerns about the relationship between female and male bodies. Throughout the book, Mitchinson takes care to examine the roles and agency of both patients and practitioners as diverse individuals.