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Body Failure - Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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Body Failure - Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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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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