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“judith godden”

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  • Crown Street Women's Hospital

    A history 1893-1983

    by Judith Godden ...
    Crown Street Women's Hospital was the largest women's hospital in NSW. Located in the heart of Surry Hills, it was a referral hospital for women throughout the State and a leading teaching centre for obstetricians and midwives. Affectionately known as 'Crown Street', an essential part of its role was caring for the poorest and most marginalised women in Sydney.Crown Street became internationally ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced

    Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia

    by Judith Godden ...
    Lucy Osburn (1836-1891) was the founder of modern nursing in Australia who also pioneered the employment of high status professional women in public institutions. Osburn learned her vocation at Florence Nightingale's school of nursing in London, but her relationship with Nightingale was not the smooth discourse of "Victorian ladies". ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899

    by Carol Helmstadter, Judith Godden ...
    Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860, the founder of modern nursing. This book ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • A Heavy Reckoning

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  • Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

    The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound

    by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming ...
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  • Contraception

    Edited by Donna Shoupe ...
    Series Book 5 - GIP - Gynaecology in Practice
    Which method of contraception best suits your patient's needs?Contraceptive technology has exploded at breakneck speed. The options now available can bewilder patients who need practical advice for family planning.Contraception provides just that practical advice. Divided into three sections covering selection and cost comparison, individual methods of contraception, and risks and benefits for ... Read more

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  • Separate Beds

    A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s

    by Maureen K. Lux ...
    Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring ... Read more

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  • Caesarean Birth

    The Work of François Rousset in Renaissance France - A New Treatise on Hysterotomotokie or Caesarian Childbirth

    Edited by Thomas Baskett ...
    François Rousset's sixteenth-century treatise was the first known text to promote the idea of caesarean birth. In its time, Rousset's book was translated into German and Latin, but until publication of this book there was no known English translation. The original text was highly controversial four centuries ago, and caesarean section - especially the rising rate of caesarean births, with one ... Read more

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  • From Poison Arrows to Prozac

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  • A History of Endometriosis

    by Ronald Batt ...
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  • The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy:Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    Bodies, books, fortune, fame

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