Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Studies in Gender History) - Hardcover

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Bashford (women's studies and history, U. of Sydney) looks at practitioners and patients of 19th-century medicine as embodied and sexed subjects. She applies current cultural and feminists theories to such questions as what cultural meanings were embodied by practitioners, how doctors thought of themselves as fleshly and tactile and as carrying or immune from contagion, and how nurses conceptualized and enacted cleanliness on their bodies and morals as well as their wards and homes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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