title: Harsh lessons of history.
abstract: Reading Janet McCalman's history of the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, is a humbling, emotional experience. It tells us so much about women--as nurses, as patients, and as childbearers, wives, victims, sufferers, champions. For nurses, and particularly for those of us who are midwives, it presents a remarkably unsanitized--and at times confronting account--of our profession.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gleeson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006771:Hospitals, Maternity / Q000266:history*; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000266:history*; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000266:history; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000266:history; D014739:Victoria