The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization

Dr. John Jarrell, Emeritus Professor in the Department of OBGYN at the Cumming School of Medicine, and a visiting researcher of the History of Medicine and Health Care Program. He is an expert who examines the historical development of theories and therapies of chronic pelvic pain. He is the author of ~100 peer reviewed papers on women’s health and disease; editor of two books, one Textbook of Gynecology co-edited with Dr. Larry Copeland and one on Pain from Unrelated Treatments for the International Association for the Study of Pain.

1. Early Women Gynecologists 2. Medical Treatments for Pelvic Pain Prior To The Battey Operation 3. Early Developments in Surgical Practice 4. The Predictions of James Blundell 5. Major Gynecological Developments in The Nineteenth Century 6. Dr. Robert Battey And the Removal of Normal Ovaries 7. Battey’s Surgery Embraced 8. Critique of the Battey Operation 9. The Emergence of Pelvic Pain Sensitization 10. The Clinical Detection and Implications of Sensitization for Clinicians 11. Clinical Implications of Pelvic Pain Sensitization 12. Is There an Evolutionary Explanation for Pelvic Pain? 13. A Brief Summary of Advancements Since the Nineteenth Century 14. Summary