... doctors, what was consummation? Was it simple penetration? Or did it require emission? Might it even necessitate the wife's orgasm? Michel Foucault tartly observed that the pagans were too reserved to conduct such a full and intrusive discussion of conjugal rights, methods, and duties. Why then did...

... but not another? If gynecology basked in the importance Western societies attributed to motherhood, urology was tainted by its association with venereal disease and impotence. Doctors who discussed such issues were acutely aware of their apparent unseemliness. Moreover, the terrain was already occupied by quacks...

... who nonetheless were at the vanguard of progress, they appealed to him as a premodern visionary who intuited the modern world but was uncorrupted by it. The chapter concludes with an account of patients reading Shakespeare and responding—sometimes strenuously—to what they perceived as their doctors...

...This chapter deals with institutions and professionals that used sun treatments, such as doctors and scientists. The medical profession struggled to control the new treatments largely because it could not close ranks around a set of principles. With a sun-starved public, sunshine began going where...

..., doctors, and nurses who are restoring generosity to medicine—generosity toward others and to themselves. It evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. The book calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel...

... and other treatment, and restraints and seclusion. These issues are put forth in the context of how doctors and lawyers tend to differ about these matters, what the nature of mental illness is, and what the justifications for treating the mentally ill differently are. Arriving at a competency standard...

... for centralizing and interpreting data about individual Americans. It explains how corporations like life insurers and credit agencies in the late nineteenth century built nation-spanning observational communities of professionals (doctors and lawyers) disciplined to meet corporate information needs. And it looks...

...This chapter focuses on the emergence and experiences of Merina and Betsileo Malagasy Lutheran doctors and administrators who act as cultural translators or “middle figures” to the two American NGOs (cf. Hunt 1999). Rooting this subject position in Malagasy cultural practices of ethnic and regional...

... by the authorities. This book investigates the cultural activity of inmates and doctors under the moral treatment regime in nineteenth-century asylums. It hopes to recapture the texture of a time when the treatment of the insane in America was a central topic in cultural conversations about democracy, freedom...

...This chapter explores the life of a curious blackface minstrel troupe composed of patients at the New York State Lunatic Asylum. Performing several times a year for patients, doctors, and visitors, they turned a famously carnivalesque popular form into a therapeutic diversion for other patients...

... authority, many of the authors cast their confinement as a retreat from the overwhelming forces of nineteenth-century modernity with which they had been unable to cope on the outside; and they cast their authorship in a mode that similarly retreated from market forces that their doctors claimed had poisoned...

... and sometimes obstructionist doctors and hospitals. abortion facilities hospitals abortion funding Canada abortion gatekeeping committees Canada abortion services Britain private sector health care systems and abortion services and funding NHS National Health Service and abortion services political...

... local doctors practice is improvised, drawing things together in a co-constructed assemblage. Instituting a nationality traditional medicine is a difficult and hazardous undertaking. The chapter describes activist strategies of institution-gathering through encounters with both grassroots institution...