Sex and Suffering Women's Health and a Women's Hospital: The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856-1996 - Hardcover
This is the story of the suffering that sex has brought to women from time immemorial, and of how modern medicine has freed them from much of that suffering. A vivid and absorbing social history, it begins in the dawn of anaesthesia, before the revolutions brought about by aspesis, antisepsis and antibiotics, and concludes in our own time with AIDS and IVF. Using a rich and unique archive of patient records surviving from the 1850s, Janet McCalman brings to life the private experiences and sufferings of women and the struggles of nurses and doctors to bring them relief.
Profusely illustrated,Sex and Suffering is a ground-breaking, sometimes shocking history of health and disease, medicine and nursing, and the intimate lives of ordinary women.
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About the Author:
Dr Janet McCalman is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for the Study of Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, she is recognised as one of Australia's leading social historians. She has written two award-winning histories of Melbourne private life: Struggletown (MUP, 1984), which won four awards including the 1985 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and Journeyings (MUP, 1993), which won the 1993 Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. She was a finalist in the 1997 Walkley Awards for her regular column in the Age. Dr McCalman is married to publisher Al Knight and has a son and a daughter.
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- PublisherMelbourne Univ Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0522848370
- ISBN 13 9780522848373
- BindingHardcover
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