Sex, masturbation and foetal death: Filipino physicians and medical mythology in the late nineteenth century

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-60

  Reyes, Raquel A G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies KITLV KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catholicism; Foetal death; Folk beliefs; H pital Lariboisire; Masturbation; Metrorrhagia; Paris; Philippines; Popular medicine; Scientific medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749116198     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkn095     Document Type: Article

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