HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine

Consists of biographies of medical practioners, primarily in the western medical tradition.

Edited by Vern L. Bullough. Covers traditional techniques and contemporary practices of contraception.

Covers major theories, issues, and people in contemporary gender studies.

Wide coverage of topics and countries.

Searches multiple reference books at once, including the Oxford Companion to the Body, the Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, and the Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. TIP: Narrow down your search to a specific subject area or a specific reference book. Also another good sources for searching medical terminology.

Gives an overview of approaches, methods, recent work and major debates in the history of sexuality. Also in print.

Ed. by W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter. Osler Library Ref WZ 13 C737 1993 (2 vols.). Background essays with good bibliographies.

Ed. Anton Sebastian. Osler Library Ref folio WZ 13 S443d 1999.

Humanities and Social Sciences HQ16 P35 2006. Covers the history of sexuality in Europe and America from 1750.

Ed. by Julie Peakman. Humanities and Social Sciences HQ12 C85 2011 (6 vols.). Volumes divided according to period. Each period is explored thematically, for example: sex, medicine, and disease; heterosexuality; homosexuality; religion and the law; etc.