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Anne Hardy and Lawrence Conrad, eds. Women and Modern Medicine. Clio Medico, no. 61. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. v+ 293 pp. Ill. $92.00, euro68.00 (cloth, 90-420-0871-7); $36.00, euro27.00 (paperbound, 90-420-0861-X).
In this collection, which comprises papers presented at a Wellcome Institute symposium in 1994, women are treated as both "the objects and agents of medical practice and intervention"...