Sex And Suffering

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 420 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This is the story of the suffering that sex has brought to women from time immemorial, and of how modern medicine has freed them from much of that suffering. A vivid and absorbing social history, it begins in the dawn of anaesthesia, before the revolutions brought about by aspesis, antisepsis and antibiotics, and concludes in our own time with AIDS and IVF. Using a rich and unique archive of patient records surviving from the 1850s, Janet McCalman brings to life the private experiences and sufferings of women and the struggles of nurses and doctors to bring them relief. Profusely illustrated,Sex and Suffering is a ground-breaking, sometimes shocking history of health and disease, medicine and nursing, and the intimate lives of ordinary women.

ISBN: 9780522848373