Sex and Medicine : Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Women take the field; 3. The power of gynaecology; 4. As a fish out of water: women in surgery; 5. Inside medicine: the physician specialties; 6. The unconscious of medicine: anaesthesia and psychiatry; 7. The subalterns of general practice; 8. Nursing a grievance: doctor-nurse relations; 9. Doctors and the women's health movement; 10. Conclusion.