Claire Brock (University of Leicester)

British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon a rich archive, Brock explores the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to the end of the Great War. This book is essential reading for those interested in medical history, providing wide-ranging new perspectives on the history of women, patient narratives and the history of surgery. This title is also available as Open Access.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 235mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781107186934
• ISBN-10: 1107186935
• Artikelnr.: 46986572

Autorenporträt

Claire Brock is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester. She is the author of two monographs, The Feminization of Fame, 1750-1830 (2006) and The Comet Sweeper (2007), and the editor of New Audiences for Science: Women, Children, and Labourers (2013). Brock won the British Society for the History of Science's international Singer Prize for young scholars (2005) and received a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (2012-14) for British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of charts and tables
List of illustrations
Introduction: disapproval, curiosity, amusement, obstinate hostility? Women and surgery, 1860-1918
1. From controversy to consolidation: surgery at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1902
2. The experiences of female surgical patients at the Royal Free Hospital, 1903-13
3. Women surgeons and the treatment of malignant disease
4. Inside the theatre of war
5. Operating on the Home Front, 1914-18
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.