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The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives
Gayle Davis (Ed.)
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Description for The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives
Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Gayle; Loughran, Tracey. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the first large-scale review of recent research on the history of infertility. Through exploring an unparalleled range of chronological periods and geographical regions, it develops historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical experience. It shows how experiences of infertility, access to treatment, and medical ... Read more
This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the first large-scale review of recent research on the history of infertility. Through exploring an unparalleled range of chronological periods and geographical regions, it develops historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical experience. It shows how experiences of infertility, access to treatment, and medical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
663
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137520791
SKU
V9781137520791
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Ref
99-15
About Gayle Davis (Ed.)
Gayle Davis is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and has published extensively in the social history of medicine since c.1880. Her published work includes the books `The Cruel Madness of Love': Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (2008) and The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950-80 (with Roger Davidson, 2012). ... Read more
Reviews for The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives
The 30 essays in this book ... cover a broad range of topics in the area of infertility, starting with the very definition of the problematic notion of infertility. ... Historians, specialists of literature, and historians of art, for example, will find here a key to read multiple ... aspects of history. Specialists in medical ethics and legislation also will ... Read more