The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives

Reflects on and interrogates different approaches to the history of infertility, including the potential of cross-disciplinary perspectives, and the uses of different kinds of historical source material.

Develops historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical experience through by exploring different chronological periods and geographical regions.

Considers the ways in which subjective experiences of infertility, access to treatment, and medical perspectives on this 'condition' have been mediated by social, political and cultural discourses, including those around gender and the family.

Author: Gayle Davis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 663
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.44d
ISBN: 9781137520791

About the Author

Gayle Davis is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and has published extensively in the social history of medicine since c.1880. Her published work includes the books 'The Cruel Madness of Love' Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (2008) and The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950-80 (with Roger Davidson, 2012).

Tracey Loughran is Reader in History at the University of Essex, UK. Her research explores gender, medicine and psychology in twentieth-century Britain. Her major work to date is Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain (2016).