2001 –2013 DHOM, Georg (1922 – 2014)
Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.
Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.
GMN 8477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10654
2005 FREDRICS, David N.; FIEDLER, Tina N.; MARRAZZO, Jeanne M.
Molecular identification of bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fredricks, Fiedler, Marrazzo. Using molecular methods, the authors confirmed that absence or greatly reduced number of Lactobacilli was associated with vaginosis. They …
GMN 11396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13595
2006 GREEN, Monica Helen; GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); MOONEY, Linne R. (1949 – ); TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.
"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…
GMN 8366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10542
2007 WOLFF, Caspar [WOLF] (1525 – 1601); KING, Helen (1957 – )
Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.
The compendium that King studied is Caspar Wolff's Gynaeciorum (1566, 1586-1588; Nos. 6011 and 6022). She concentrated on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from…
GMN 8481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10658
2007 FISSELL, Mary E.
Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…
GMN 13577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15855
2008 GREEN, Monica Helen
Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.
Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.
GMN 7130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9297
2008 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); BOURBON, Florence
Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)
A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.
GMN 10635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12828
2008 BASKETT, Thomas F. (1941 – )
On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.
Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
GMN 12331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14555
2009 FREIDENFELDS, Lara
The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.
GMN 11484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13683
2011 BATT, Ronald Elmer (1933 – 2017)
A history of endometriosis.
GMN 7930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10103
2011 FOXCROFT, Louise
Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.
GMN 10545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12738
2011 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…
GMN 10549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12742
2011 LÖWY, Ilana (1948 – )
A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.
GMN 11052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13248
2014 EVANS, Jennifer
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
GMN 10422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12615
2014 RODRIGUEZ, Sarah B.
Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
GMN 10542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12735
2014 SWANSON, Kara W.
Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.
GMN 11513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13712
2014 GILADI, Avner
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
GMN 13528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15805
2015 ARNAUD, Sabine
L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).
Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
GMN 10424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12617
2015 MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – ); BOLTON, Lesley Annette
An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).
This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in English, and …
GMN 12201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14411
2017 OWENS, Deirdre Cooper
Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.
"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…
GMN 9908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12096
2017 OREN-MAGIDOR, Daphna
Infertility in early modern England.
GMN 10754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12950
2017 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); BOURBON, Florence
Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.
Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…
GMN 11038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13234
2018 TERAZAWA, Yuki
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
GMN 10645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12838
2018 KOVACS, Gabor T. (1947 – ); BRINSDEN, Peter Robert (1940 – ); DECHERNEY, Alan Hersh
In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.
Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.
GMN 10696 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12889
2020 O'DOWD, Michael J.
The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.
"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…
GMN 13512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15787
2020 FREIDENFELDS, Lara
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
GMN 13518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15793
2024 KLEIN, Wendy
Exposed: The hidden history of the pelvic exam.
GMN 14319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16644
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