Download or read book Man midwifery exposed and corrected etc written by Samuel GREGORY (M.D., of Boston, U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man midwifery Exposed and Corrected written by Samuel Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man Midwifery Exposed and Corrected written by Samuel Gregory and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, midwives have attended women during childbirth. Although they were exclusively female, midwives were revered in many ancient civilizations and paid well for their services. For reasons related to societal norms and gender roles, physicians, historically male, did not customarily enter the lying-in chamber until doing so became a lucrative endeavor. Man-midwives or accoucheurs, non-existent before the mid-18th century, were physicians who attended women during childbirth - the precursor to today's obstetricians. How and why did childbirth transfer from the control of women and the hands of midwives to the domain of physicians?Housed in this book are two 19th century pamphlets presenting opposing arguments for the training and education of females as midwives and the expansion of the male physician's role to include man-midwifery. The pamphlets provide historical documentation of the patriarchal and coercive practices of physicians that lead to the control of the midwifery profession and childbearing women, and, therefore, prepared the foundation for the medicalization of childbirth.
Download or read book Man midwifery Exposed Or the Danger and Immorality of Employing Men in Midwifery Proved and the Remedy for the Evil Found written by John Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sociology of Health and Illness written by Peter Conrad and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text that brings a critical and conceptual sociological orientation to bear on the issues underlying the current health care crisis and on proposed changes in the health system.
Download or read book The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Her Own Good written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.
Download or read book Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Claire Brock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914. By covering this period, readers will be introduced to ongoing debates surrounding women in medicine, via sources which explore the possibilities for – as well as the problems of – female professional practice. The perspectives of detractors and supporters, as well as medical women themselves, are taken into account, and especial consideration given to opinions which were not neatly divided along gender lines. Of key concern here is a nuanced tracing through primary material of changes in the perception of medical women, as well as the ways in which lingering prejudices disappeared or remained well into the twentieth century. This volume focuses on two key areas: first, the debates and challenges around medical and surgical education for women; and, second, women’s physical and mental ‘fitness’ to practise. The reproduction of previously unpublished student magazines, both from the foundational London School of Medicine for Women, as well as medical schools which considered admitting women during this period, are an original feature of this volume. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.
Download or read book Liminal Bodies Reproductive Health and Feminist Rhetoric written by Lydia McDermott and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric posits rhetoric and gynecology as sister discourses. While rhetoric has been historically concerned with the regulation of the productive male body, gynecology has been concerned with the discipline of the female reproductive body. Lydia M. McDermott examines these sister discourses by tracing key narrative moments in the development of thought about sexed bodies and about rhetorical discourse, from classical myth and natural philosophy to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century decline of midwifery and the rise of scientific writing on the reproductive body. Liminal Bodies offers a metaphorical method of invention and criticism, “sonogram,” that emphasizes the voices and bodies that have been left on the margins of the dominant histories of rhetoric.
Download or read book Science Has No Sex written by Arleen Marcia Tuchman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In Science Has No Sex, Arleen Tuchman examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day. At a time when most women physicians laid claim to "female" qualities of care and nurturance to justify their professional choice, Zakrzewska insisted that all physicians, regardless of gender, should depend upon the rational faculties developed through training in the natural sciences. She viewed science as a democratizing tool--anyone could master science, she asserted, and therefore the doors to the elite profession of medicine should be opened to all. Shedding light on the changes that radically transformed medicine in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman's analysis also demonstrates how Zakrzewska's activism is important to the ongoing debate over the relationship between science and sex.
Download or read book American Gynecology written by American gynecology and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Gynecology written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Download or read book Medical Education in the United States Before the Civil War written by William Frederick Norwood and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Download or read book Profound Science and Elegant Literature written by Stephanie P. Browner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating medical practice had been repealed; and professional practitioners were often branded by their lay competitors as aristocrats bent on establishing a health care monopoly. By 1900, the battles were over, and, as the president of AMA had hoped, doctors were now widely venerated as men of profound science, elegant literature, polite accomplishments, and virtue. In fact, by 1900 the doctor had replaced the minister as the most esteemed professional in the United States; disease loomed larger than damnation; and science promised to manage the discord, differences, and excesses that democracy seemed to license. In Profound Science and Elegant Literature, Stephanie Browner charts this trajectory—and demonstrates at the same time that medicine's claims to somatic expertise and managerial talent did not go uncontested. Even as elite physicians founded institutions that made professional medicine's authority visible and legitimate, many others worried about the violence that might attend medicine's drive to mastery and science's equation of rational disinterest with white, educated masculinity. Reading fiction by a wide range of authors beside and against medical texts, Browner looks to the ways in which writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Holmes, James, Chesnutt, and Jewett inventoried the collateral damage that might be done as science installed its peculiar understanding of the body. A work of impressive interdisciplinary reach, Profound Science and Elegant Literature documents both the extraordinary rise of professional medicine in the United States and the aesthetic imperative to make the body meaningful that led many American writers to resist the medicalized body.
