British women surgeons and their patients, 1860-1918
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cult...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England :
Cambridge University Press
2017.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746799306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: disapproval, curiosity, amusement, obstinate hostility? women and surgery, 1860-1918
- 1 From controversy to consolidation: surgery at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1902
- 2 The experiences of female surgical patients at the Royal Free Hospital, 1903-1913
- 3 Women surgeons and the treatment of malignant disease
- 4 Inside the theatre of war
- 5 Operating on the home front, 1914-1918
- Conclusion.
