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Sex and suffering: women's health and a women's hospital : the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996

Janet McCalman
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword (page vii)
  • Abbreviations (page x)
  • Acknowledgements (page xi)
  • I Tracy's Hospital 1856-1874
    • 1 Founding a Hospital (page 3)
    • 2 Lying-in (page 15)
    • 3 The Disease Peculiar to Women (page 35)
  • II Sepsis and Antisepsis 1875-1902
    • 4 Fever House (page 53)
    • 5 'Servants in the Temple of Purity' (page 73)
  • III Women and Doctors 1883-1913
    • 6 The Sickness of Women (page 93)
    • 7 The Natural and the Unnatural (page 117)
  • IV Class Relations 1914-1931
    • 8 Improving the Race (page 147)
    • 9 'An Interesting Introduction to the Family Life of the Proletariat' (page 171)
  • V 'Enormous Clinical Material' 1932-1960
    • 10 Poverty and Pain (page 197)
    • 11 Watersheds (page 223)
  • VI Human Relations 1945-1970
    • 12 Managing Difference (page 255)
    • 13 Nurses (page 279)
  • VII Transformations 1970-1996
    • 14 Values (page 313)
    • 15 Practices (page 329)
    • 16 Chances (page 351)
    • Appendixes (page 369)I Confinements 1857-1887 (page 369)
    • II Obstetrical and Post-abortal Sepsis Deaths 1939-1940 (page 375)
    • III Nursing Notes 1914-1916 (page 381)
  • Notes (page 402)
  • Bibliography (page 412)
  • Index (page 414)
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Published: 1999
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780522849028 (paper)
  • 9780522848373 (hardcover)
  • 9780522862966 (ebook)
Subject
  • Australasian/Oceanian
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