Isaac Baker Brown
Isaac Baker Brown (1811 – 3 Februari 1873) adalah seorang pakar ginekologi dan obstetrik Inggris abad ke-19.[1] Ia merupakan spesialis dalam penyakit wanita dan mengadvokasikan prosedur bedah tertentu, yang meliputi klitoridektomi, untuk mengobati epilepsi dan histeria.
Biografi | |
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Kelahiran | 1811 |
Kematian | 3 Februari 1873 (61/62 tahun) London |
Kegiatan | |
Pekerjaan | gynecologist (en) , ahli bedah |
Keluarga | |
Anak | Arthur Boyer Brown (en) |
Daftar pustaka
sunting- 1854: On some Diseases of Women Admitting of Surgical Treatment
- 1866: On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females
Catatan kaki
sunting- ^ Ryan, Christopher; Jethá, Cacilda (2010), Sex at Dawn, New York: Harper, hlm. ??, ISBN 978-0-06-170780-3
Referensi
sunting- Darby, Robert J. L. (2005). A surgical temptation: the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-13645-0.
- Fennell, Phil (1999). Treatment without consent: law, psychiatry and the treatment of mentally disordered people since 1845. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07787-7.
- Kent, Susan Kingsley (1999). Gender and power in Britain, 1640–1990. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14742-5.
- O'Dowd, Michael J.; Philipp, Elliot Elias (2000). The history of obstetrics and gynaecology. Informa Health Care. ISBN 1-85070-040-0.
- Roy, Judith M. (2004). "Brown, Isaac Baker (1811–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Diakses tanggal 4 October 2009.
- Sheehan, Elizabeth A. (1997). "Victorian Clitoridectomy". Dalam Lancaster, Roger N.; Di Leonardo, Micaela. The gender/sexuality reader: culture, history, political economy. Routledge. hlm. 325–334. ISBN 0-415-91005-6.
- Vergnani, Linda (9 May 2003). "'Uterine fury' - now sold in chemists". Times Higher Education. Diakses tanggal 7 October 2009.