Ornella moscucci biography for kids

The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender 1800-1929 by Ornella Moscucci,
Cambridge, pp 278, 35 Pounds.

Ornella moscucci biography for kids

In the 19th century, gynaecologist Robert Barnes declared: ‘Any disease
occurring in a woman will almost certainly involve some modifications in
the work of her sexual system’. In her lively and original book, The Science
of Woman, Ornella Moscucci explores the heated medical and scientific debates
about the nature of ‘woman’ as they took shape in the new medical speciality
of gynaecology.

Once new fields are delineated they conme to be seen as natural, their
boundaries appear to derive from logic, and a world in which they had no
place becomes unimaginable. A detailed study of the gestation and birth
of a new specialism reveals a different story.

Gynaecology enjoyed an intricate and fraught relationship with obstetrics,
which had its origins in the 18th century. Both gynaecology and obstetrics
challenged traditional lines of demarcat