Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Charlotte O'Conor-Eccles Nineteenth Century

Subjects:

Hospitals, Medical Practitioners, Disease, Obstetrics, Gender, Morality, Controversy

    Exposes the appalling conditions at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Vienna, where 'For the sanctities of feminine reserve there is simply not the smallest regard shown. The patients in the obstetric ward [are] exposed in the most callous and brutal manner', and the 'dying are disturbed in their extremity to be made the subject of tutorial demonstration or of students' inspection'.