Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine PDF
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PURITY AND POLLUTION STUDTES IN GENDER HISTORY By challenging long-accepted approaches, categories and priorities, gender history has necessitated nothing 1css than a change in the hiSlOrical terrain. This scries sceks to publish the latest and best research, which nOI only continues to TestoTe wornen 10 history and hislory 10 wornen, but also 10 encourage1he devcloprnent of a new channel of scholarship. Published titles include: Kalhryn Gleadle THE EARLY FEMINISTS Elizabeth C. SandeTson WOMEN AND WORK IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EDiNBURGH Parncla Sharpc ADAPTING '!D C/WITALISM l ilian Lcwis Shirnan WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN NlNETEENTH-CENTURY ENG LAND Clare Taylor WOMEN Of THE ANTI-SlAVERY MOVEMENT Purity and Pollution Gender, Embodimcnt and Victorian Medicine A lison Bashford l.eClurer in Women's Sludies ond lIislory Ul1iversily 01 Sydl1ey Aus/ralia First published in Great Brita in 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstokc, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-77796-1 ISBN 978-0-230-50124-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230501249 First pub I ished in Ih e United S Ia tes of America I 998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-21038-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bashford, Alison, 1963-- Purity and pollution: gender, embodiment. and Victorian medicine I Alison Bashford. p. em. 1n c 1u des bi bl io graph ic a1 references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-21038-0 (cloth) I. Social medicine·--llistory~ 19th century. 2. Body. Human~Social aspects~ History~ 19th century. 3. Women in medicine-~ History~ 19th century. 4. Sex rolc~History~ 19th century. 5. Gender identity -History~ 19th century. 6. Feminist theory. 1. Title. RA418.R367 1998 610'.9'034--dc21 97-28323 CIP ©Alison Bashford 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 978-0-333-68248-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmined save with wriucn permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the tcnns of any licence pcrmiuiog limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Toll en ham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who docs any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asscned her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 Für Tessa and Oscar This page intentionally left blank Contents List oJ Abbrev;ations VB> List of 1lI11strations Acknowledgements x Introduction Sanitising Spaces: The Body and (he Domestic in Public Health 2 Female Bodies al Work: Narratives 0/ rhe 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse 21 3 'Disciplines of the Flesh'; Sexuality, Religion and rhe Modern Nurse 41 4 Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in ehe 1860s 63 5 Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics 0/ Hea/rh 85 6 Dissecting lhe Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century 107 7 Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner 127 NOles ond References 149 Bibliography 173 Index 183 VB List of Abbreviations BL British Library BMI British Medical Journal GLRO Greater London Record Office NAPSS National Association for the Promotion of Social Science TNAPSS Transactions o[ the National Associationfor (he Promotion 0/ Socia! Science viii List of Illustrations I.l The Ladies' Sanitary Association 1866 (The Wellcome Institute fOT the History of Medicine Photographie Collection) 13 2.1 'Fifty Years' (The Nursing Record alld Hospital World, 20 Decembet 1888) 29 6.1 Dissection of the Male Perineum (0. J. Cunningham, Manual of Practical Anatomy, Young J. Pentland, Edinburgh and London, 1893, p. 348) 11 8 7.1 'Sterilization ofthe Hands and Skin' (British Medical Journal, 30 September 1905, p. 783) 143
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