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Index
Title Page
Introduction
Introduction: A Perspective on the Social Role of Medicine
Women and Medicine in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
THE HISTORICAL SETTING
The “Sick” Women of the Upper Classes
THE CULT OF FEMALE INVALIDISM
THE DOCTORS STAKE IN WOMEN’S ILLNESS
THE “SCIENTIFIC” EXPLANATION OF FEMALE FRAILTY
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE OVARY
MEDICAL TREATMENTS
SUBVERTING THE SICK ROLE
The “Sickening” Women of the Working Class
BIOLOGICAL CLASS WARFARE
THE SPECIAL DANGER OF WORKING-CLASS WOMEN
PROSTITUTES AND VENEREAL DISEASE
THE MIDDLE-CLASS OFFENSIVE: PUBLIC HEALTH
THE MIDDLE-CLASS OFFENSIVE: BIRTH CONTROL
WOMEN “UPLIFT” WOMEN
Notes on the Situation Today (1973)
From Here On: Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Copyright Page
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