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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.
Volume 1 Popular Culture and Medicine, Volume 2 The Mary Toft Affair, Volume 3 Continental Midwives in Translation, Volume 4 Midwifery Texts for Women, Volume 5 The State of Midwifery Considered, Volume 6 Elizabeth Nihell, Volume 7 Lying-In Hospitals, Male/Female Midwifery Debates, Volume 8 Midwifery Lectures, Essays and Addresses: 1750–1769, Volume 9 Midwifery Treatises: 1737–1784, Volume 10 Midwifery Lectures, Essays and Addresses: c. 1770–1800, Volume 11 Diffcult Births and Reproductive Abnormalities, Caesarean Birth Volume 12 Midwifery Artefacts, Instruments and Illustrations, Consolidated Index
Biography
Pam Lieske
