Helen King
Ashgate
Hardback
240
2007
The Gynaeciorum libri a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century when men and women were in competition for control over childbirth Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.
Ashgate
Hardback
240
2007
The Gynaeciorum libri a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century when men and women were in competition for control over childbirth Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.