The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion
Author : A. M. Mauriceau
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Abortion
ISBN :
The Married Woman'S Private Medical Companion : Embracing The Treatment Of Menstruation, Or Monthly Turns, During Their Stoppage, Irregularity, Or Entire Suppression. Pregnancy, And How It May Be Determined; With The Treatment Of Its Various Diseases. Discovery To Prevent Pregnancy; Its Great And Important Necessity Where Malformation Or Inability Exists To Give Birth. To Prevent Miscarriage Or Abortion. When Proper And Necessary To Effect Miscarriage. When Attended With Entire Safety. Causes And Mode Of Cure Of Barrenness, Or Sterility.
Author : A. M. Mauriceau
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2024-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Welcome to the essential guide for women's health, ""The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion"" by A. M. Mauriceau, a comprehensive resource addressing key aspects of reproductive health and medical treatments. This indispensable book provides valuable insights into menstruation, pregnancy, and related conditions with a focus on practical guidance and expert advice. Explore the intricate details of menstruation, from managing irregularities and stoppages to understanding the nuances of monthly cycles. Mauriceau offers clear explanations and effective treatments to address these common concerns, ensuring that readers gain a thorough understanding of their reproductive health. Dive into the complex world of pregnancy with sections dedicated to its detection, management, and the prevention of potential complications. Learn about the various diseases associated with pregnancy and the critical strategies for preventing miscarriage or abortion. Mauriceau's expertise shines through as he provides practical advice for maintaining a healthy pregnancy and addressing issues related to malformation or inability to give birth. The book also covers methods for preventing pregnancy when necessary, offering crucial guidance for women facing unique health challenges. With a focus on safety and efficacy, Mauriceau discusses the causes and cures for barrenness or sterility, providing hope and solutions for those struggling with infertility. The tone of ""The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion"" is both informative and supportive, offering a reassuring voice to women navigating the complexities of reproductive health. Mauriceau's authoritative approach combined with his compassionate perspective ensures that readers receive practical advice grounded in medical knowledge. Since its publication, ""The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion"" has been praised for its thorough and accessible approach to women's health. The book stands out in the field for its detailed exploration of reproductive issues and its commitment to providing actionable solutions. As you read ""The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion"", you'll appreciate the depth of Mauriceau's expertise and the relevance of his advice. This guide is an invaluable resource for women seeking comprehensive information and practical solutions for their reproductive health challenges. In conclusion, ""The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion"" is more than just a medical guide—it's a vital tool for understanding and managing women's health issues with confidence and clarity. Whether you're seeking to address specific concerns or looking for general guidance, this book offers essential knowledge and expert advice for every woman. Don't miss the opportunity to empower yourself with the knowledge contained in ""The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion"". Secure your copy today and take control of your reproductive health with the help of A. M. Mauriceau's trusted expertise.
The Trials of Madame Restell
Author : Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620978091
Book Description
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period she prevailed—until she didn’t. A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege.
Madame Restell
Author : Jennifer Wright
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306826828
Book Description
**Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction (2023)** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR in BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR and HISTORY** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH (March 2023)** **A Bookshop.Org EDITOR'S PICK (March 2023)** “This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: self-made millionaire, a celebrity in her era, a woman beloved by her patients and despised by the men who wanted to control them.” An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling “boarding house” provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of women—rich and poor alike. As her practice expanded, her notoriety swelled, and Restell established her-self as a prime target for tabloids, threats, and lawsuits galore. But far from fading into the background, she defiantly flaunted her wealth, parading across the city in designer clothes, expensive jewelry, and bejeweled carriages, rubbing her success in the faces of the many politicians, publishers, fellow physicians, and religious figures determined to bring her down. Unfortunately for Madame Restell, her rise to the top of her field coincided with “the greatest scam you’ve never heard about”—the campaign to curtail women’s power by restricting their access to both healthcare and careers of their own. Powerful, secular men—threatened by women’s burgeoning independence—were eager to declare abortion sinful, a position endorsed by newly-minted male MDs who longed to edge out their feminine competition and turn medicine into a standardized, male-only practice. By unraveling the misogynistic and misleading lies that put women’s lives in jeopardy, Wright simultaneously restores Restell to her rightful place in history and obliterates the faulty reasoning underlying the very foundation of what has since been dubbed the “pro-life” movement. Thought-provoking, character-driven, boldly written, and feminist as hell, Madame Restell is required reading for anyone and everyone who believes that when it comes to women’s rights, women’s bodies, and women’s history, women should have the last word.
The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion
Author : A. M. Mauriceau
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Contraception
ISBN :
Book Description
Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century America
Author : Nancy M. Theriot
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813158206
Book Description
The feminine script of early nineteenth century centered on women's role as patient, long-suffering mothers. By mid-century, however, their daughters faced a world very different in social and economic options and in the physical experiences surrounding their bodies. In this groundbreaking study, Nancy Theriot turns to social and medical history, developmental psychology, and feminist theory to explain the fundamental shift in women's concepts of femininity and gender identity during the course of the century—from an ideal suffering womanhood to emphasis on female control of physical self. Theriot's first chapter proposes a methodological shift that expands the interdisciplinary horizons of women's history. She argues that social psychological theories, recent work in literary criticism, and new philosophical work on subjectivities can provide helpful lenses for viewing mothers and children and for connecting socioeconomic change and ideological change. She recommends that women's historians take bolder steps to historicize the female body by making use of the theoretical insights of feminist philosophers, literary critics, and anthropologists. Within this methodological perspective, Theriot reads medical texts and woman- authored advice literature and autobiographies. She relates the early nineteenth-century notion of "true womanhood" to the socioeconomic and somatic realities of middle-class women's lives, particularly to their experience of the new male obstetrics. The generation of women born early in the century, in a close mother/daughter world, taught their daughters the feminine script by word and action. Their daughters, however, the first generation to benefit greatly from professional medicine, had less reason than their mothers to associate womanhood with pain and suffering. The new concept of femininity they created incorporated maternal teaching but altered it to make meaningful their own very different experience. This provocative study applies interdisciplinary methodology to new and long-standing questions in women's history and invites women's historians to explore alternative explanatory frameworks.
The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion
Author : A. M. Mauriceau
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Contraception
ISBN :
Book Description
One of the earliest and most influential books in America written for the layman dealing with and promoting contraception. (The author offers French contraceptives for sale, as well as a tonic to treat sterility.) Most of the book offers practical medical advice on gynecological subjects. According to the Library Company of Philadelphia, "A. M. Mauriceau" was possibly a pseudonym for Madame Restell, "the most notorious abortionist in New York, and this widely distributed book was essentially an advertisement for her services, as well as for the contraceptive devices sold through the mail by her husband."
Lost
Author : Shannon Withycombe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813591554
Book Description
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. Withycombe’s pathbreaking research reveals how Americans construed, and continue to understand, miscarriage within a context of reproductive desires, expectations, and abilities. This is the first book to utilize women’s own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Withycombe’s work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
Abortion in America
Author : James C. Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1979-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199726876
Book Description
Chronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion.
Licentious Gotham
Author : Donna Dennis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674053731
Book Description
Licentious Gotham, set in the streets, news depots, publishing houses, grand jury chambers, and courtrooms of the nation's great metropolis, delves into the stories of the enterprising men and women who created a thriving transcontinental market for sexually arousing books and pictures. The experiences of fancy publishers, flash editors, and racy novelists, who all managed to pursue their trade in the face of laws criminalizing obscene publications, dramatically convey nineteenth-century America's daring notions of sex, gender, and desire, as well as the frequently counterproductive results of attempts to enforce conventional moral standards. In nineteenth-century New York, the business of erotic publishing and legal attacks on obscenity developed in tandem, with each activity shaping and even promoting the pursuit of the other. Obscenity prohibitions, rather than curbing salacious publications, inspired innovative new styles of forbidden literature--such as works highlighting expressions of passion and pleasure by middle-class American women. Obscenity prosecutions also spurred purveyors of lewd materials to devise novel schemes to evade local censorship by advertising and distributing their products through the mail. This subterfuge in turn triggered far-reaching transformations in strategies for policing obscenity. Donna Dennis offers a colorful, groundbreaking account of the birth of an indecent print trade and the origins of obscenity regulation in the United States. By revealing the paradoxes that characterized early efforts to suppress sexual expression in the name of morality, she suggests relevant lessons for our own day.
