![]() The Representation of Medical Women in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century How were risk and responsibility conceptualised in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods when surgery could be seen simultaneously as safe (due to developments in surgical science) and increasingly risky (because such progress allowed for greater experimentation)? How did the practice of surgery both help and hinder the cause of the medical woman in her pursuit of professional equality? It also considers the procedures women actually performed, their intervention in controversial surgery of the day, and their successes and failures, in order to assess how the ways in which women operated contributed to their public and professional reputation. ![]() ![]() This Wellcome Trust-funded project is an exploration of the changes in the perception, both popular and medical, of the art of surgery and the figure of the surgeon and how they coincided with the entrance of women into the medical profession. Below is a list of suggestions for PhD projects that English at Leicester would be interested in supervising.
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