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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joan Sherwood , Joan SherwoodPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780773537415ISBN 10: 0773537414 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 01 September 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSherwood's book gives us an important and engrossing analysis of the legal, ethical, and institutional dimensions surrounding wet nurses and the treatment of syphilitic children. She convincingly demonstrates that disadvantaged women used the law to shift medico-legal practice and professional ethics. The book is invaluable reading for scholars working on the history of public health and welfare institutions, as well as the social history of women and the family in modern France. H-France Sherwood compellingly investigates the social and ethical implications of this medical innovation, and describes in thrilling detail the legal consequences for families and doctors when infected wet-nurses sued for damages. Merilyn Simonds, The Kingston Whig Standard Sherwood compellingly investigates the social and ethical implications of this medical innovation, and describes in thrilling detail the legal consequences for families and doctors when infected wet-nurses sued for damages. Merilyn Simonds, The Kingston Whig Standard Author InformationJoan Sherwood is a retired professor who taught in the Department of History at Queen's University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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