British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860-1918

by Claire Brock

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth century until the end of the Great War. Drawing on a rich...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107186935
• ISBN13: 9781107186934
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"