Fixing Women

Fixing Women
Author: Marcia Nichols
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735542300

Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the "Hero-Accoucheur," who fought valiantly to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as literary heroes, medical men could present themselves as altruistic, disinterested professionals. Yet under the mask of altruism and scientific curiosity lurked a self-interested, hegemonic masculinity that justified the emerging medical specialties of obstetrics and gynecology-specialties that required the homogenization of white, bourgeois women as "the Sex." By charting the development of and struggles of obstetrical discourse, Fixing Women sheds light on the gender politics of a biomedical model and practice that continues to reverberate in our own time.

Obstetrics by Ten Teachers, 19th Edition

Obstetrics by Ten Teachers, 19th Edition
Author: Philip N. Baker
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-03-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1444145630

First published in 1917 as 'Midwifery', Obstetrics by Ten Teachers is well established as a concise, yet comprehensive, guide within its field. The nineteenth edition has been thoroughly updated, integrating clinical material with the latest scientific advances. With an additional editor and new contributing authors, the new edition combines authoritative detail while signposting essential knowledge. Retaining the favoured textual features of preceding editions, each chapter is highly structured, with overviews, definitions, aetiology, clinical features, investigation, treatments, key points and additional reading where appropriate. Together with its companion Gynaecology by Ten Teachers, the volume has been edited carefully to ensure consistency of structure, style and level of detail, as well as avoiding overlap of material. For almost a century the 'Ten Teachers' titles have together found favour with students, lecturers and practitioners alike. The nineteenth editions continue to provide an accessible 'one stop shop' in obstetrics for a new generation of doctors.

The Science of Woman

The Science of Woman
Author: Ornella Moscucci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521447959

This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a cultural product of a wider, more political context.

Medical Bondage

Medical Bondage
Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0820351342

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.

Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health

Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health
Author: Vivienne O'Connor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2003-10-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780521818933

An essential textbook for students of obstetrics and gynaecology as well as women's health more generally.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Author: Frank W. Ling
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780838572016

A comprehensive textbook of obstetrics and gynecology designed to meet the clinical information needs of the community, ob/gyn and the famil y practitioner. The sixty-eight chapters are organized into sections on obstetrics, women's health care issues, management of chronic medic al problems in women's health, and special problems in gynecologic onc ology. In this book subjects are addressed as they would occur, given their importance and precision needed in clinical decision-making.

Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings

Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings
Author: Nawal M. Nour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2016-11-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0674974212

Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women worldwide, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring the delivery of quality OB/GYN care to women in resource-poor countries. Including contributions from leading clinicians and researchers in the field, this welcome overview fills an important gap in existing medical literature on women’s health care and will be an invaluable resource for doctors, clinicians, and medical students at all stages of their careers who work in the global health arena. The reproductive health risks that all women face are greatly exacerbated when health care facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and well-trained medical staff are few and far away. Often in these settings, the sole doctor or medical professional on hand has expertise in some areas of women’s reproductive care but needs a refresher course in others. This informative guide features hands-on, step-by-step instruction for the most pertinent OB/GYN conditions—both acute and chronic—that health care workers in the field confront. The authors examine a wide range of topics, including: strategies to reduce maternal mortality and stillbirths; infectious and sexually transmitted diseases, including malaria and HIV; cervical cancer; contraception; prenatal, delivery, and newborn care; and complications arising from gender-based violence and female genital cutting. Published in a convenient format with a durable binding, this reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.

Primary Care for Women

Primary Care for Women
Author: Phyllis Carolyn Leppert
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781737906

Thoroughly revised and updated for its Second Edition, this comprehensive, practical reference is an essential resource for obstetrician-gynecologists who are increasingly responsible for primary care and need information on the diagnosis and management of non-gynecologic disorders. It offers all primary care practitioners invaluable guidance on the wide variety of problems unique to women. The book includes chapters on age-specific issues to care for female patients at each stage of life and disease-oriented chapters covering all disorders seen by primary care physicians. Disease-oriented chapters include etiology, differential diagnosis, history, physical examination, laboratory and imaging studies, treatment, and special considerations during pregnancy.

Pocket Guide for Obstetrics and Gynecology

Pocket Guide for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Author: Frank W. Ling
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780838581346

A pocket-sized, quick-reference to the protocols, clinical pearls, and pitfalls to avoid from the major new text, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Principles for Practice. It features essential and practical guidel ines, focusing on what house officers, clinicians, and third-and fourt h-year medical students need most.

Guidelines for Women's Health Care

Guidelines for Women's Health Care
Author: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Publisher: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Women's Health Care Physicians
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781932328356

Helps readers understand the principles of health care and management for diverse types of delivery systems and the role of ob-gyns and other providers in hospital and office practice.