IN THE 19th century, gynaecologist Robert Barnes declared: `Any disease occurring in a woman will almost certainly involve some modifications in the work of her sexual system". 
In her lively and original book, The Science of Woman, Ornella Moscucci explores the heated medical and scientific debates about the nature of `woman" as they took shape in the new medical speciality of gynaecology. 
Once new fields are delineated they come to be seen as natural, their boundaries appear to <tag "515648">derive</> from logic, and a world in which they had no place becomes unimaginable.   

