The Woman's Medical Journal, 1900, Vol. 10

The Woman's Medical Journal, 1900, Vol. 10
Author: Eliza H. Root
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781527664029

Excerpt from The Woman's Medical Journal, 1900, Vol. 10: Published in the Interests of Medical Women; Index Cleveland, Emeline Horton 425 Erxleben, Dorothea Christine Hunt, Harriett Kizia Preston. Ann - First Woman Physician in Germany, Zakrzewska, Marie E. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Colour of Disease

The Colour of Disease
Author: K. Jochelson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2001-04-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0333992660

Today AIDS dominates the headlines. A century ago it was fears of syphilis epidemics. This book looks at how the spread of syphilis was linked to socio-economic transformation land dispossession, migrancy and urbanisation disrupted social networks - factors similarly important in the AIDS crisis. Medical explanations of syphilis and state medical policy, however, were shaped by contemporary beliefs about race. Doctors drew on ideas from social Darwinism, eugenics, and social anthropology to explain the incidence of syphilis among poor whites and Africans, especially women, and to help define 'normal' and abnormal sexual behaviour for racial groups.

Liza of Lambeth

Liza of Lambeth
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770488588

Following the publication of Liza of Lambeth, W. Somerset Maugham would go on to establish himself as one of the most prolific, best-selling novelists of the twentieth century. For all that Liza did not dramatize life in a thieves’ den or depict the poor as atavistic brutes, its honest treatment of working-class pastimes and appetites offended middle-class readers as much as the bludgeonings and chivings of Arthur Morrison’s violent A Child of the Jago had one year before. Maugham vividly captured a working-class couple’s illicit romance and a neighborhood’s collective surveillance and punishment of the woman’s promiscuity and the man’s marital infidelity. Today, the novel’s treatment of women’s experiences, working-class life, and health and medicine in the Victorian city are freshly relevant.