Author: John DOUGLAS (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A short Account of the State of Midwifery in London, Westminster, etc. wherein an effectual method is proposed to enable the midwomen to perform their office ... with as much ease, and safety, as the most dexterous midmen, etc
Author: John DOUGLAS (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Making of Man-Midwifery
Author: Adrian WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429663358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practices. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of babies were being delivered by men – a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This authoritative and challenging work explains this transformation in medical practice and remarkable shift in gender relations. By tracing the actual development and transmission of the new midwifery skills through the period, the book addresses both technological and feminist arguments of the period. The study is distinctive in treating childbirth as both a bodily and a social event and in explaining how the two were intimately connected. Practical obstetrics is shown to have been shaped by the social relations surrounding deliveries, and specific techniques were associated with distinctive places and political allegiances. The books studies how increasing numbers emergent male-midwives had overtaken women in the skill of delivering children and how as such expectant mothers chose to use these male-midwives, thus heralding the growth of male-midwives in the period.
The Scottish Nation
Author: William AndersonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382171171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Scottish Nation
Author: William AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The Scottish Nation; Or The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland. [With Plates and Illustrations, Including Portraits.]
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Author: William Anderson (Miscellaneous Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Science of Woman
Author: Ornella MoscucciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447959
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a cultural product of a wider, more political context.
Birthing the Nation
Author: Lisa Forman CodyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199268649
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the history of the reproductive body and the body politic, from stories of pregnant men to rumours that a midwife had foisted a 'suppositious' child on the nation as the Prince of Wales, this original andprovocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized by birth and midwifery.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Birth Figures
Author: Rebecca WhiteleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments; Visualizing touch and defining a professional persona -- Part III: The birth figure persists (1751-1774). Challenging the Hunterian hegemony -- Conclusion.