Caroline Rusterholz

Women's medicine

Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920-70

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the role played by British female doctors in the medicalisation of birth control and family planning at the national and transnational level between 1920-70. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used to position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and family planning research and practice.

Produktdetails

• Social Histories of Medicine
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781526149121
• ISBN-10: 1526149125
• Artikelnr.: 58592350

Autorenporträt

Caroline Rusterholz is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Giving birth control medical credentials in Britain, 1920-70
2 Sexual disorders and infertility, expanding the work of the clinics 3
Medicalizing birth control at the international conferences (1920-37), a
British-French comparison 4 Building a transnational movement for family
planning 1927-70 5 Testing IUDs, a transnational journey of expertise
Conclusion References Index