Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 122
... physician ( or priest ) had to be summoned . † ( Women , of course , could not be physicians in fifth - century Greece . ) But podalic version is not a surgical operation , nor part of the treatment of disease . It is a technique ...
... physician ( or priest ) had to be summoned . † ( Women , of course , could not be physicians in fifth - century Greece . ) But podalic version is not a surgical operation , nor part of the treatment of disease . It is a technique ...
Page 136
... physician . Moreover , we have to rid ourselves of the opposite stereotypes of the highly trained , spotlessly aseptic male obstetrician , clad in sterile gown , masked and gloved , and the filthy peasant crone muttering over her bag of ...
... physician . Moreover , we have to rid ourselves of the opposite stereotypes of the highly trained , spotlessly aseptic male obstetrician , clad in sterile gown , masked and gloved , and the filthy peasant crone muttering over her bag of ...
Page 145
... physician from patient to patient , 11 The response of his profession was outrage at the implication that the hands of the physician could be unclean ; uncleanliness was the very charge the doc- tors had long been leveling at the ...
... physician from patient to patient , 11 The response of his profession was outrage at the implication that the hands of the physician could be unclean ; uncleanliness was the very charge the doc- tors had long been leveling at the ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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