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The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries: A history of the present

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2018

Authors

Moore, Alison Downham
Towghi, Fouzieyha
Ashford, Holly Rose
Dune, Tinashe
Pithavadian, Rashmi

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Routledge Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract

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.

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Gynaecology in India, European history of gynaecology, medical anthropology of women’s health, history and sociology of women’s sexual health, global history of hysterectomy

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/289315

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ANU Research Publications

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History and Anthropology

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Journal article

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Open Access

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Creative Commons Attribution licence

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10.1080/02757206.2021.1987232

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