| Description |
xvi, 234 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Contents |
Mothers and their midwives in seventeenth-century London / Doreen Evenden -- Provincial midwives in England: Lancashire and Chesire, 1660-1760 / David Harley -- Midwifery practice among the Quakers in southern rural England in the late seventeenth century / Ann Giardina Hess -- The midwives of south Germany and the public/private dichotomy / Merry E. Wiesner -- From hegemony to subordination: midwives in early modern Spain / Teresa Ortiz -- The politick midwife: models of midwifery in the work of Elizabeth Cellier / Helen King -- Midwife to a nation: Mme du Coudray serves France / Nina Gelbart -- The Church, the state and childbirth: the midwife in Italy during the eighteenth century / Nadia Maria Filippini. -- Professionals? Sisters? Rivals?: midwives in Braunschweig, 1750-1800 / Mary Lindemann -- The 'burgerlijke' midwife: the stadsvroedvrouw of eighteenth-century Holland / Hilary Marland |
| Analysis |
Europe |
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Midwifery History |
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Midwifery--History--Europe |
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Midwives--Europe--History |
| Notes |
First published in paperback in 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index |
| Subject |
Midwifery -- Europe -- History.
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Midwives -- Europe -- History.
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Midwifery -- history.
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Midwifery -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
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Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
| Author |
Marland, Hilary.
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| LC no. |
92049026 |
| ISBN |
0415064252 (HB) |
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0415116759 (paperback) |
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