Medical Advice for Women, 1830û1915

by Robbins; Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780415403313
• ISBN10: 0415403316
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Medical Advice for Womenis a new five-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse covering professional, scientific, and medical opinion, in addition to the popular guides aimed at the female reader, between the years 18301915. Medical literature from this period provides a fascinating insight into the interrelations between social proscriptions, often validated by appeals to religious authority, and medical prescriptions. The narrative contained within this largely chronological collection is not necessarily a progressive one from quackery to medical and scientific enlightenment; the situation was more nuanced than selective quotation from sensational examples has implied in the past. This collection, edited and with a new introduction by Ruth Robbins, illuminates the complexity and shifting grounds of opinion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by bringing back into print a broad selection of texts offering medical advice to women, and will be of interest to all scholars and students working in gender and cultural studies, and particularly to historians and sociologists of medicine.

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsLengthVolume 1 approx 324 pages plus the editors introductionVolume 2 approx 372 pagesVolume 3 approx 260 pagesVolume 4 approx 208 pagesVolume 5 approx 298 pagestotal: approx 1462 pages?? plus another c. 500pp of text from the US (Edition Synapse esp. keen on this new material)Detailed ContentsVolume 1: Advice from the 1830s to the 1850s: Establishing the Ideological GroundThomas Bull, Hints to Mothers for the Management of Health During the Period of Pregnancy and the Lying-in Room: With an Exposure of Popular Errors in Connexion with those Subjects (London: Spottiswoode and Co., 1837)Edward Tilt, On the Preservation of the Health of Women at Critical Periods of Life (London: John Churchill, 1851)Volume 2: Advice in the 1860s: Consolidating the Ideological GroundPye Henry Chavasse, Advice to a Wife on the Management of her own Health; and on the Treatment of Some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour and Suckling (London: John Churchill, 1864)Mrs [Eliza] Warrens, How I Managed my Children from Infancy to Marriage (London: Houlston and Wright, 1865)Volume 3: The 1870s: Challenging the Ideological GroundMary Putnam Jacobi, The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation (New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1877)Volume 4: The 1880s: RetrenchmentLionel Weatherly, MD, The Young Wifes Own Book: A Manual of Personal and Family Hygiene: Containing Everything that the Young Wife and Mother Ought to Know Concerning Her Own Health and that of Her Children at the Most Important Periods of Life (London: Griffin and Farran, 1882).Volume 5: The Seven Ages of WomanThe Seven Ages of Woman: A Consideration of the Successive Phases of a Womans Life (London: Cassell and Co., 1915)