Sex and Suffering Women's Health and a Women's Hospital |
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Author:
| McCalman, Janet |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6226-7 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1999 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $52.99 |
Book Description:
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Sex and motherhood bring women great joy, but they may also bring sickness and suffering. In this book Janet McCalman provides a vivid and absorbing social history of women's health, seen through the work of Australia's oldest women's hospital--the Royal Women's Hospital at Melbourne. Drawing on the hospital's patient records from the 1850s to the ......
Sex and motherhood bring women great joy, but they may also bring sickness and suffering. In this book Janet McCalman provides a vivid and absorbing social history of women's health, seen through the work of Australia's oldest women's hospital--the Royal Women's Hospital at Melbourne. Drawing on the hospital's patient records from the 1850s to the ......