Author: William Smellie (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. By William Smellie .. The Second Edition, Corrected
Author: William Smellie (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Dr. William Smellie and His Contemporaries
Author: John GlaisterMrs Stone & Dr Smellie
Author: Robert WoodsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381410
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A remarkable history of midwifery in the eighteenth century.
The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
Author: Helen KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317022386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology
Author: Helen KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351917684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen King here concentrates on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the 'man-midwife' William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the 'father of medicine', Hippocrates, as the 'father of midwifery'. The close study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueur's model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that women's difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female 'difference' was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology makes a genuine contribution not only to the history of medicine and its subfield of gynaecology, but also to gender and cultural studies.
Death Before Birth
Author: Robert WoodsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199542759
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The history of fetal health & mortality remains a neglected area. Medical historians have focused on maternal mortality & professional conflicts between midwives, while among the social scientists demographers & epidemiologists have until recently devoted most of their attention to infants and children.
Smellie's Treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery
Author: William SmellieSmellie's Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. Ed. with Annotations, by Alfred H. McClintock ...
Author: William SmelliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Obstetrics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: A Catalogue of English Books Printed Before 1801 Held by the University Library at Göttingen: v. 1-4. Books printed between 1701 and 1800
Author: Bernhard FabianPublisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description