1999 MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina Markell; JONES, Mary Amanda Dixon (1828 – 1908)
Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.
"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …
GMN 10429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12622
2000 FLEMMING, Rebecca
Medicine and the making of Roman women: Gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen.
GMN 8294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10470
2000 OGILVIE, Marilyn Bailey (1936 – ); HARVEY, Joy Dorothy
The biographical dictionary of women in science: Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century.
GMN 11445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13644
2000 –2015 CREESE, Mary Rose Stewart Weir (1935 – 2017)
Ladies in the laboratory. 4 vols. 1: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research. 2: West European women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions (2004). 3: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science: Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2010). 4: Imperial Russia's women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research (2015).
GMN 12260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14476
2000 PEITZMAN, Steven J.
A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998.
GMN 13223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15487
2001 WELLS, Susan
Out of the dead house: Nineteenth‐century women physicians and the writing of medicine.
GMN 10428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12621
2002 GREEN, Monica Helen; TROTA OF SALERNO, (Trotula) (1150 – )
The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.
A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…
GMN 8577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10754
2002 MCGRATH, Roberta
Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.
"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…
GMN 10175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12364
2002 WINDSOR, Laura Lynn (1959 – )
Women in medicine: An encyclopedia.
GMN 13828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16118
2002 SCRIVENER, Laurie; BARNES, J. Suzanne
A biographical dictionary of women healers. Midwives, nurses, and physicians.
GMN 14081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16392
2007 WIGLE, Shari Lynn; ANDERSON, Grace (1884 – 1973)
Pride of America, we're with you: The letters of Grace Anderson, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I.
GMN 8995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11174
2007 SCHULTZ, Jane E.
Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.
"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…
GMN 9003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11182
2007 KATRIZKY, M. A.
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
GMN 13645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15926
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
2009 LAROCHE, Rebecca
Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
"Through an analysis of twenty-four examples of female-owned herbals supplemented by case studies of the herbal references in the writings of Margaret Hoby, Grace Mildmay, Elizabeth Isham, and Isabella Whitney, Rebecc…
GMN 10613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12806
2009 BELLAFAIRE, Julia (1954 – ); GRAF, Mercedes Herrera
Women doctors in war.
The history of female physicians in the U.S. military.
GMN 11443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13642
2009 FREIDENFELDS, Lara
The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.
GMN 11484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13683
2010 GREEN, Monica Helen
Bibliography on medieval women, gender, and medicine 1980-2009. (Latest update: February 2, 2010).
"This bibliography comprises all the entries that appeared in the bibliography on “Women and Medicine” that I published periodically in the Medieval Feminist Forum (formerly, Medieval Feminist Newsletter) from 1990 to…
GMN 13016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15266
2012 KELLY, Laura
Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s -1920s.
GMN 8747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10925
2013 BENNETT, Judith M. (1951 – ); KARRAS, Ruth Mazo (1957 – )
The Oxford handbook of women and gender in Medieval Europe. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.
Part V "Bodies, pleasures, desires" includes much of medical and biological interest, including a remarkable chapter by Kathryn M. Ringrose on "The Byzantine body."
GMN 8838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11016
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
2015 WARDROP, Daneen
Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.
Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…
GMN 9000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11179
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
2016 HALLETT, Christine E.
Nurse writers of the great war.
GMN 8997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11176
2016 ATWATER, Edward Congdon (1926 – 2019)
Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A biographical dictionary.
GMN 10050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12239
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 BENNETT, Lyn
Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.
"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…
GMN 11382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13581
2019 RAYNER-CANHAM, Geoffrey W.; RAYNER-CANHAM, Marelene F.
Pioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.
GMN 12325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14549
2019 DIXON, Laurinda S. (1948 – )
Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.
"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in…
GMN 13010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15260
2020 FREIDENFELDS, Lara
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
GMN 11485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13684
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
2022 BRANDT, Susan H.
Women healers: Gender, authority, and medicine in early Philadelphia.
GMN 13904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16196
