Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780333682487 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 188 str.

Alison Bashford; A. Bashford

Opis

In the STUDIES IN GENDER HISTORY series, this text examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects and brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.