1st Edition

Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part I vol 4

By Pam Lieske Copyright 2007
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives.

Introduction, Works Cited and Bibliography, Sarah Stone, A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737), William Clark, Th e Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art (1751), John Grigg, Advice to the Female Sex in General (1789), Editorial Notes

Biography

Pam Lieske