Author: Elizabeth Nihell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336890325X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery
Author: Elizabeth Nihell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336890325X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336890325X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Court Midwife
Author: Justine Siegemund
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226757102
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226757102
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.
The Making of Man-midwifery
Author: Adrian Wilson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674543232
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from the subsequent month of lying-in. But in the eighteenth century there emerged a new practitioner: the "man-midwife" who acted in lieu of a midwife and delivered normal births. By the late eighteenth century, men-midwives had achieved a permanent place in the management of childbirth, especially in the most lucrative spheres of practice. Why did women desert the traditional midwife? How was it that a domain of female control and collective solidarity became instead a region of male medical practice? What had broken down the barrier that had formerly excluded the male practitioner from the management of birth? This confident and authoritative work explores and explains a remarkable transformation--a shift not just in medical practices but in gender relations. Exploring the sociocultural dimensions of childbirth, Wilson argues with great skill that it was not the desires of medical men but the choices of mothers that summoned man-midwifery into being.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674543232
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from the subsequent month of lying-in. But in the eighteenth century there emerged a new practitioner: the "man-midwife" who acted in lieu of a midwife and delivered normal births. By the late eighteenth century, men-midwives had achieved a permanent place in the management of childbirth, especially in the most lucrative spheres of practice. Why did women desert the traditional midwife? How was it that a domain of female control and collective solidarity became instead a region of male medical practice? What had broken down the barrier that had formerly excluded the male practitioner from the management of birth? This confident and authoritative work explores and explains a remarkable transformation--a shift not just in medical practices but in gender relations. Exploring the sociocultural dimensions of childbirth, Wilson argues with great skill that it was not the desires of medical men but the choices of mothers that summoned man-midwifery into being.
Child-birth; Or, The Happy Delivery of Women
Author: Jacques Guillemeau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Man-midwife, Male Feminist
Author: James Wyatt Cook
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office
ISBN: 141816285X
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office
ISBN: 141816285X
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology
Author: Helen King
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754653967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Gynaeciorum libri, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when men and women were in competition for control over childbirth, Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754653967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Gynaeciorum libri, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when men and women were in competition for control over childbirth, Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Author: Meg Elison
Publisher: 47north
ISBN: 9781503939110
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power--and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining"--Back cover.
Publisher: 47north
ISBN: 9781503939110
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power--and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining"--Back cover.
The Midwives Book
Author: Mrs. Jane Sharp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This work supplied English midwives and English women with a compendium of information for the Continent and from the author's own thirty years of experience.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This work supplied English midwives and English women with a compendium of information for the Continent and from the author's own thirty years of experience.
The Birth of Mankind
Author: Eucharius Rösslin
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754638186
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Between 1540 and 1654, 'The Byrth of Mankynde' was a huge commercial success. Offering informaton on fertility, pregnancy, birth and infant care, it influenced most other works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction and childcare. For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, Elaine Hobby has included informative notes.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754638186
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Between 1540 and 1654, 'The Byrth of Mankynde' was a huge commercial success. Offering informaton on fertility, pregnancy, birth and infant care, it influenced most other works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction and childcare. For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, Elaine Hobby has included informative notes.
Treatise on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children
Author: Albert Isaiah Coffin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description