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Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bashford, Alison, 1963-
- Series:
- Studies in gender history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--History--19th century.
- Social medicine.
- Human body--Social aspects--History--19th century.
- Human body.
- Women in medicine--History--19th century.
- Women in medicine.
- Sex role--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Gender identity--History--19th century.
- Gender identity.
- Feminist theory.
- History.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Contents:
- 1 Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health 1
- 2 Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse 21
- 3 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse 41
- 4 Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s 63
- 5 Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health 85
- 6 Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century 107
- 7 Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333682483
- 0312210388
- OCLC:
- 41300671
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