Body failure : medical views of women, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.
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TextPublisher: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (456 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442665279
- 1442665270
- Women patients -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Physician and patient -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Medicine -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Physician and patient
- Patients -- history
- Physician-Patient Relations
- Women's Health -- history
- Canada
- Patientes -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Femmes -- Santé et hygiène -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Relations médecin-patient -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Médecine -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Relations médecin-patient
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine
- HISTORY -- Canada -- General
- Medicine
- Physician and patient
- Women -- Health and hygiene
- Women patients
- Canada
- 1900-1999
- 613.0 23 22
- RA564.85
- WA 309
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Includes bibliographical references (299-404) and index.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Woman�s Place""; ""2 Growing Up and Facing Puberty""; ""3 “You can�t be at your best when you�re sitting in a swamp�: Menstruation""; ""4 Understanding Sexuality""; ""5 Advice on Marriage and Motherhood""; ""6 “On the fringe of knowledge�: Infertility""; ""7 Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion""; ""8 “The ... mischievous tendency of specialism�: Gynaecology""; ""9 The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat""; ""10 The Mind�s Health""; ""11 Menopause: The End of Womanhood""
ConclusionNotes on Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations
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.
English.
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