1st Edition
Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy Contested Deliveries
By Jennifer F. Kosmin
Copyright 2021
236 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century.
Medical writers in this period devoted countless pages to investigating the secrets of women’s sexuality and the processes of... Read more
Introduction
1. Midwives, Medicine, and Religion
2. Textual Deliveries: Reading Early Modern Obstetrical Treatises
3. The Origins of Public Maternity Care in Northern Italy
4. Midwifery Education and the Politics of Reproduction
5. Surgical Instruction and the Clinicalization of the Maternity Ward
6. Contested Deliveries
Conclusion
Biography
Jennifer F. Kosmin is Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research focuses on the intersections of the history of medicine, gender history, the history of the body, and the popular display and study of anatomy in eighteenth-century Italy.
