Body failure : medical views of women, 1900-1950 /

Mitchinson, Wendy,

Body failure : medical views of women, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson. - Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (456 pages)



""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Woman�s Place""; ""2 Growing Up and Facing Puberty""; ""3 “You can�t be at your best when you�re sitting in a swamp�: Menstruation""; ""4 Understanding Sexuality""; ""5 Advice on Marriage and Motherhood""; ""6 “On the fringe of knowledge�: Infertility""; ""7 Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion""; ""8 “The ... mischievous tendency of specialism�: Gynaecology""; ""9 The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat""; ""10 The Mind�s Health""; ""11 Menopause: The End of Womanhood"" ConclusionNotes on Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.



9781442665279


Women patients--History--Canada--20th century.
Women--Health and hygiene--History--Canada--20th century.
Physician and patient--History--Canada--20th century.
Medicine--History--Canada--20th century.
Physician and patient.
Patients--history
Physician-Patient Relations
Women's Health--history


Electronic Books.

RA564 / .B639 2013