Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century by Brock, Claire;

Volume IV: Patient Perspectives

Series: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 31 July 2024

ISBN 9781032207940
Binding Hardback
No. of pages392 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 453 g
Language English
Illustrations 4 Halftones, black & white

Short description:

This volume examines the contemporary fear that hospital patients, mostly of working-class origin, were being experimented upon by their overly eager, ambitious, and vivisecting doctors. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.

Long description:

Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients – largely women and children – to be treated by them. By the end of 1914, this more usual patient base was expanded to include injured soldiers. To provide a full consideration of the medical and surgical world of this period, it is necessary to explore patients in order to explore how gender affected the relationship between patient and practitioner. This volume examines the contemporary fear that hospital patients, mostly of working-class origin, were being experimented upon by their overly eager, ambitious, and vivisecting doctors; something in which surgeons especially were seen to be complicit. Women too, however, carried out abdominal and gynaecological surgery, and performed clitoridectomies. How medical women justified their actions, as well as how their patients viewed them, is the focus of this volume. Additionally, the voice of those who experienced ‘medical tyranny’ is considered to examine what happened when patients fought back publicly against the medical establishment. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.

Volume IV – Patient Perspectives Volume IV - Introduction 1. Jessie C. Farmer, ‘Shall Female Physicians Treat Male Patients’, California Medical Journal, 9 (1888), pp. 462-464. 2. J. William White, The Supposed Curative Effect of Operations Per Se, reprinted from Annals of Surgery, 14.2 and 14.3 (August and September 1891), pp. 81-119, 161-198. 3. ‘The New Hospital for Women, and What Mrs Brown Saw There. By Her Neighbour’, Queen, 10 (September 1892), pp. 62-63. 4. ‘Medicine. An Eminent Lady Doctor’, in Professional Women Upon Their Professions. Conversations Recorded by Margaret Bateson (London: Horace Cox, 1895), pp. 28-31. 5. May Thorne, ‘The After-Effects of Abdominal Section’, British Medical Journal, 1:988 (4 February 1899), pp. 264-265. 6. ‘The Gentlewoman’s Opinion: On the Lady Doctor’, Gentlewoman (19 October 1907), p. 20. 7. Selected Contributions from Dr X.Y.Z., ‘Talks with the Doctor’, Woman Worker, August-December 1908: 7 August, p. 266; 14 August, p. 290; 21 August, pp. 314; 28 August, p. 340; 4 September, p. 364; 11 September, p. 388; 18 September, p. 406; 25 September, p. 436; 2 October, p. 456; 9 October, p. 480; 16 October, p. 505; 23 October, p. 528; 4 November, p. 576; 11 November, p. 600; 18 November, p. 631; 25 November, p. 650; 2 December, p. 672; 9 December, p. 703; 16 December, p. 723; 23 December, p. 747. 8. ‘New Jersey’, in The Tree of Knowledge. A Document by a Woman (New York: Stuyvesant Press, 1908), pp. 216-228. 9. Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, ‘The Patient’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 7:48 (March 1911), pp. 350-358. 10. [Alice Beatty], Medical Tyranny: A Personal Experience (self-published, 1912). 11. Antonio de Navarro, The Scottish Women’s Hospital at the French Abbey of Royaumont (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1917), pp. 187-211. 12. Lady Frances Balfour, Elsie Inglis (London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1918), pp. 59-81, 111-136. Index