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Routledge
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Routledge
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Surveys important issues in the history of medicine Although there is substantial literature on childbirth, it typically lacks the full medical, historical, and social context that these volumes provide. This series fills the gap in many institutions' libraries by bringing together key articles on the expectant mother, the attendants of her delivery, and the health of the newborn infant. The... Read more
British Midwifery; The “Byrth of Mankynde.” (Its Author and Editions.); “These griping greefes and pinching pangs”: Attitudes to Childbirth in Thomas Bentley’s The Monument of Matrones (1582); Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-witch; Elizabeth Cellier in 1688 on Envious Doctors and Heroic Midwives Ancient and Modern; The Perils of Early Modern Procreation: Childbirth with or without Fear? 1; Is Childbirth Any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England; American Midwifery; “Childbirth-Travells” and “Spiritual Estates”: Anne Hutchinson and Colonial Boston, 1634-1638; “The Living Mother of a Living Child”: Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England; Science Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century; Called to Her at Three O’Clock AM: Obstetrical Practice in Physician Case Notes; Midwifery; Obstetrics and the Work of Doctoring in the Mid-Nineteenthcentury American South; The Woman’s Experience of Childbirth on the Western Frontier; Bloodletting in American Obstetric Practice, 1800-1945; The Training and Practice of Midwives: A Wisconsin Study; The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts; Mary Breckinridge, the Frontier Nursing Service and the Introduction of Nurse-Midwifery in the United States; Pregnancy and Parturition from a Woman’s Point of View; Pregnancy, Labor and Body Image in the United States; Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Working-Class Women, Middle-Class Women, and Models of Childbirth
Biography
Philip K. Wilson
