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Body Failure : Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchinson, Wendy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Health and hygiene--Canada--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women patients--Canada--History--20th century.
- Women patients.
- Physician and patient--Canada--History--20th century.
- Physician and patient.
- Medicine--Canada--History--20th century.
- Medicine.
- Canada.
- Medical Subjects:
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (453 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Womanâ€?s Place""; ""2 Growing Up and Facing Puberty""; ""3 â€oeYou canâ€?t be at your best when youâ€?re sitting in a swampâ€?: Menstruation""; ""4 Understanding Sexuality""; ""5 Advice on Marriage and Motherhood""; ""6 â€oeOn the fringe of knowledgeâ€?: Infertility""; ""7 Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion""; ""8 â€oeThe ... mischievous tendency of specialismâ€?: Gynaecology""; ""9 The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat""; ""10 The Mindâ€?s Health""; ""11 Menopause: The End of Womanhood""
- ConclusionNotes on Sources and Methodology
- Notes
- Index
- Illustrations
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6528-9
- 1-4426-6527-0
- OCLC:
- 1076453252
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