Women's Medicine: Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 192070
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Women's Medicine: Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 192070
By (Author) Caroline Rusterholz
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
10th December 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
European history
363.9609410904
Winner of Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the History of Medicine and Science 2020
Physical Properties
Hardback
280
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 17mm
467g
Description
Women's medicine highlights British female doctors' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more p
Reviews
'This book ... fills important gaps in womens history and the history of medicine and health and is an outstanding contribution to the history of contraception. The rich source base and meticulous documentation underpinning Rusterholzs bold arguments make it a solid historiography, well organized and thus easy to follow. I therefore highly recommend Womens Medicine.'
Agata Ignaciuk, University of Granada, Journal of British Studies
Author Bio
Caroline Rusterholz is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge
