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Sex and suffering: women's health and a women's hospital : the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996

McCalman, Janet, 1948-

Year: 1999, c1998.

Publisher: Melbourne University Press.

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Frontmatter

Foreword

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

I Tracy's Hospital 1856-1874

1 Founding a Hospital

2 Lying-in

3 The Disease Peculiar to Women

II Sepsis and Antisepsis 1875-1902

4 Fever House

5 'Servants in the Temple of Purity'

III Women and Doctors 1883-1913

6 The Sickness of Women

7 The Natural and the Unnatural

IV Class Relations 1914-1931

8 Improving the Race

9 'An Interesting Introduction to the Family Life of the Proletariat'

V 'Enormous Clinical Material' 1932-1960

10 Poverty and Pain

11 Watersheds

VI Human Relations 1945-1970

12 Managing Difference

13 Nurses

VII Transformations 1970-1996

14 Values

15 Practices

16 Chances

Appendixes

I Confinements 1857-1887

II Obstetrical and Post-abortal Sepsis Deaths 1939-1940

III Nursing Notes 1914-1916

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Sex and suffering : women's health and a women's hospital : the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996 Janet McCalman.

Author:

McCalman, Janet, 1948-

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Sex and suffering : women's health and a women's hospital : the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996 Janet McCalman.
McCalman, Janet, 1948-
Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1999, c1998.

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Subject Headings:

• Royal Women's Hospital (Melbourne, Vic.) -- History
• Women's hospitals -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century
• Women's hospitals -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 20th century
• Women's health services -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 20th century
• Motherhood -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century
• Motherhood -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 20th century
• Women's health services -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century

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