Bibliograph

Female patients in early modern Britain, gender, diagnosis, and treatment, by Wendy D. Churchill

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Label

Female patients in early modern Britain, gender, diagnosis, and treatment, by Wendy D. Churchill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Female patients in early modern Britain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

794136511

Responsibility statement

by Wendy D. Churchill

Series statement

The history of medicine in context

Sub title

gender, diagnosis, and treatment

Summary

"Despite the prevalence of females amongst many physicians' casebooks and the existence of sex-based differences in the consultations, diagnoses and treatments of patients, there is no evidence to indicate that either the health or the medical care of females was distinctly disadvantaged by the actions of male practitioners. Instead, the diagnoses and treatments of women were premised on a much deeper and more nuanced understanding of the female body than has previously been implied within the historiography. In turn, their awareness and appreciation of the unique features of female anatomy and physiology meant that male practitioners were sympathetic and accommodating to the needs of individual female patients during this pivotal period in British medicine."--publisher website

Table Of Contents

1.Male Medical Practitioners and Female Patients in Early Modern Britain: Gendered Clienteles, Illnesses, and Relationships -- 2.The Treatment of Female-Specific Complaints by Male Hands -- 3.Prescribing for the Sexed Body: Women, Men, and Disease in Early Modern British Medical Practice -- 4.Feminizing the D̀iseases of the Head, Nerves or Spirits': Medical Diagnosis of Women's Minds, Bodies, and Emotions

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