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Purity and Pollution Gender,Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

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ISBN-10: 0333682483

ISBN-13: 9780333682487

Edition: 1998

Authors: Alison Bashford

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List price: $169.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 3/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health
Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse
'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse
Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s
Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health
Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century
Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index