Sex and Suffering by Janet McCalman - ISBN: 9780522849028
Paperback
The history of the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne is the history of women in the age of modern medicine. It is a story that begins in the dawn of anaesthesia, before the revolutions brought about by aspesis, antisepsis and antibiotics, concluding in our own time with AIDS and IVF. This is both …

Sex and Suffering

Women's Health and a Women's Hospital

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    14 September 1995

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Summary

A vivid social history of health and disease, medicine and nursing, and the intimate lives of ordinary women.Sex and Suffering is a ground-breaking work. It tells the often shocking story of women’s desperation to gain control over their lives and their health, and of medicine’s struggle to comprehend and manage the mysteries of nature.It offers a graphic and revealing history of childbirth in Australia; of the medical care of women; of nursing and gender roles; and of the impact of immigrati…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522849028
ISBN-10:0522849024
Author:Janet McCalman
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Edition:1st
Release Date:14 September 1995
Weight:762g
Dimensions:260mm x 186mm x 25mm
About The Author

Janet McCalman

Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next- Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19’ in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

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