Purity and Pollution
Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine
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1999
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A cultural history, which investigates the ways in which many different male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, and accoucheurs were implicated in a discourse and a material practice, inescapably about the pure and the polluted.
Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, 19th-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. This is a cultural history, which investigates the ways in which many different male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, and accoucheurs were implicated in a discourse and a material practice, inescapably about the pure and the polluted.
Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, 19th-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. This is a cultural history, which investigates the ways in which many different male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, and accoucheurs were implicated in a discourse and a material practice, inescapably about the pure and the polluted.
ALISON BASHFORD is a medical historian who lectures in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is currently writing a second book, The Biopolitics of a Nation .
List of Abbreviations - List of Figures - Introduction - Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health - Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse - 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse - Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s - Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health - Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century - Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner - Notes - Bibliography - Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.11.1999 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Gender History |
Zusatzinfo | biography |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 333 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-333-77796-4 / 0333777964 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-77796-1 / 9780333777961 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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