Women and modern medicine / edited by Lawrence Conrad and Anne Hardy.

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 2001.

v, 293 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 24 cm.

"The studies comprising this volume were originally presented at a Wellcome Institute symposium on 'Women and modern medicine' convened ... on 10-11 November 1994 ... concerning the role of women in medicine, as both patients and practitioners"--Pref.

Women and macho medicine / Ann Dally -- "Colonizing women": female medical practice in colonial India, 1880-1890 / Anne Witz -- From bedpan to revolution: Qui Jin and Western nursing / Bridie Andrews -- "Run by women (mainly) for women": Medical Women's Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 / Mary Ann Elston -- Women doctors and gender identity in Weimar Germany, 1819-1933 / Cornelie Usborne -- A suitable job for a woman: women doctors and birth control to the inception of the NHS / Lesley A. Hall -- Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams' discovery of kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast / Jennifer Stanton --Smooth, speedy, painless, and still midwife delivered?: the Dutch midwife and childbirth technology in the early twentieth century / Hilary Marland -- Ergot to ergometrine: an obstetric renaissance? / E.M. Tansey -- "Andromeda freed from her chains": attitudes towards women and the oral contraceptive pill, 1950-1970 / Lara Marks -- Pioneers of infertility treatment / Naomi Pfeffer -- An anatomy of desire: gender and difference in sex therapy / Cassandra Lorius.

Includes index and bibliographies.