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Sex and Suffering - Women's Health and a Women's Hospital (Paperback)
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Sex and Suffering - Women's Health and a Women's Hospital (Paperback)
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Sex and Suffering is a ground-breaking work. It tells the often
shocking story of women's desperation to gain control over their
lives and their health, and of medicine's struggle to comprehend
and manage the mysteries of nature. It offers a graphic and
revealing history of childbirth in Australia; of the medical care
of women; of nursing and gender roles; and of the impact of
immigration on Australian society. Remarkably, thousands of
detailed case notes, from the 1850s to the 1930s, survived intact
at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. For the first time in the
English-speaking world a historian was allowed to work directly
from these confidential patient records. Janet McCalman vividly
recreates the lives of patients and the daily work of a hospital.
She enables readers to follow the institution through times of
growth and economic depression, through the grim history of
criminal abortion, and through the inspiring story of medical
science and surgery since the coming of anaesthesia. Sex and
Suffering is a vivid and absorbing social history of women's
health, seen through the work of Australia's oldest women's
hospital.
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