1761 –1765 ASTRUC, Jean (1684 – 1766)
Traité des maladies des femmes. 6 vols.
Mettler considers this “the most pretentious gynecologic work of the [eighteenth] century… chiefly useful for its historical orientation”. English translation, 3 vols., London, 1762-67.
GMN 6019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7222
1851 ATLEE, Washington Lemuel (1808 – 1878)
A table of all the known operations of ovariotomy. From 1701-1851.
Atlee is said to have performed ovariotomy 387 times; with his brother John he firmly established the operation in the U.S.A.
GMN 6038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7342
1865 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)
Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.
GMN 6053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7396
1888 CARRIER, Henriette
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15742
1897 FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)
Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14408
1901 MCKAY, William John Stewart (1866 – 1948)
The history of ancient gynaecology.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8017
1908 WEINDLER, Fritz
Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.
From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8026
1917 LA TORRE, Felice (1846 – 1923)
L’utero attraverso i secoli da Erofilo al giorni nostri; storia, iconografia, struttura, fisiologia.
Contains an important collection of illustrations.
GMN 6295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8028
1924 FISCHER, Isidor (1868 – 1943)
Geschichte der Gynäkologie. In: J. von Halban and L. Seitz: Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.1, 1-202.
GMN 6296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8032
1925 FEHLER, Hermann Johann Karl (1847 – 1925)
Entwicklund der Gerurtshilfe und Gynäkologie im 19. Jahrhundert.
GMN 6297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8033
1935 THOMS, Herbert (1885 – 1972)
Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 6301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8044
1936 EGERT, Ferdinand Paul
Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.
GMN 11896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14101
1937 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde. 1 Teil. Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt.
Forms Bd. 12, Teil 1, of Handbuch der Gynäkologie, hrsg. J. Veit u. Stoeckel. See also No. 6311.4
GMN 6303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8046
1943 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.
Second edition, 1950.
GMN 6305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8049
1944 LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )
History of gynecology.
GMN 6306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8050
1945 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.
GMN 6309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8052
1949 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
GMN 6310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8053
1954 KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960); ET AL
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
GMN 6311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8055
1958 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.
79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.
GMN 6311.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8056
1968 THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)
Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.
GMN 8776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10954
1973 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.
French translation, 1976.
GMN 6311.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8059
1976 PEEL, Sir John Harold (1904 – 2005)
The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.
GMN 6742.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8106
1980 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
GMN 6311.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8061
1987 DUDEN, Barbara (1942 – )
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
GMN 8048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10224
1990 MOSCUCCI, Ornella
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
GMN 10173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12362
1991 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); JOHNSON, Timothy Robert B.; WOODRUFF, J. Donald (1912 – 1996)
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.
GMN 10983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13179
1991 DALLY, Ann (1926 – 2007)
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
GMN 11221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13418
1994 OUDSHOORN, Nelly E. J. (1950 – )
Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.
GMN 7187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9354
1994 O'DOWD, Michael J.; PHILIP, Elliot E.
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 8733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10911
1996 KRUSE, Britta-Juliane
Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.
GMN 11898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14103
1998 BARQÂY, Rôn
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
GMN 8350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10526
1998 BARKAI, Ron (1943 – )
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…
GMN 11895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14100
2000 GREEN, Monica Helen
Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.
The Appendix is Medieval gynecological texts: A handlist. This is "a list of all gynecological texts currently known to me from western Europe written between the 4th and 15th centuries. It includes gynecological exce…
GMN 11893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14098
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
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 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 LÖWY, Ilana (1948 – )
A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.
GMN 11052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13248
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 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
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
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
