TY - JOUR
T1 - The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries
T2 - A history of the present
AU - Moore, Alison Downham
AU - Towghi, Fouzieyha
AU - Ashford, Holly Rose
AU - Dune, Tinashe
AU - Pithavadian, Rashmi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper asks questions about the resilience of radical gynaecological surgeries, such as hysterectomy and ovariectomy, from the moment of their widespread use in Western European and American practices of the late nineteenth century, to their renewed increase in the Indian subcontinent and Africa into our own time.
AB - This paper asks questions about the resilience of radical gynaecological surgeries, such as hysterectomy and ovariectomy, from the moment of their widespread use in Western European and American practices of the late nineteenth century, to their renewed increase in the Indian subcontinent and Africa into our own time.
KW - European history of gynaecology
KW - Gynaecology in India
KW - global history of hysterectomy
KW - history and sociology of women’s sexual health
KW - medical anthropology of women’s health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116788667&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02757206.2021.1987232
DO - 10.1080/02757206.2021.1987232
M3 - Article
SN - 0275-7206
VL - 34
SP - 673
EP - 697
JO - History and Anthropology
JF - History and Anthropology
IS - 4
ER -