Women's medicine Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920-70

Women's medicine explores the key role played by British female doctors in the production and circulation of contraceptive knowledge and the handling of sexual disorders between the 1920s and 1970s at the transnational level, taking France as a point of comparison. This study follows the path o...

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Main Author: Rusterholz, Caroline (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
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