Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford.
Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford.
Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford.
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New York : St. Martin's Press ; London : Macmillan, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N610.9034/7
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 188 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health -- 2. Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse -- 3. 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse -- 4. Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s -- 5. Feminisi...
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Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press ; London : Macmillan, 1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1998.
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Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford.
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Studies in gender history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N610.9034/7
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74VMyZMl5ylM
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0333777964
9780333682487 (cloth, world excluding North America)
0333682483 (cloth, world excluding North America)
9780312210380 (cloth, North America)
0312210388 (cloth, North America)
9780333682487 :
0333682483 :
9780312210380 (cloth)
0312210388 (cloth)
9780333777961
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610.9034
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991001939849702626
