The Midwives Of Seventeenth Century London
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The Midwives Of Seventeenth Century London
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Author : Doreen Evenden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
The Midwives Of Seventeenth Century London written by Doreen Evenden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London rejects these claims by exploring the midwives' training and their licensing in an unofficial apprenticeship by the Church. Dr. Evenden also offers an accurate depiction of the midwives in their socioeconomic context by examining a wide range of seventeenth-century sources. This expansive study not only recovers the names of almost one thousand women who worked as midwives in the twelve London parishes, but also brings to light details about their spouses, their families and their associates.
Seventeenth Century London Midwives
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Author : Doreen Evenden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Seventeenth Century London Midwives written by Doreen Evenden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Midwives categories.
The Art Of Midwifery
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Author : Hilary Marland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-09-26
The Art Of Midwifery written by Hilary Marland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-26 with Health & Fitness categories.
Drawing on a vast range of archival material from six countries, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image.
The Making Of Man Midwifery
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Author : Adrian Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-14
The Making Of Man Midwifery written by Adrian Wilson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-14 with History categories.
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.
Common Bodies
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Author : Laura Gowing
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Common Bodies written by Laura Gowing and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.
This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights about the extent to which early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies. Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women—wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices of the time concerning women’s bodies and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender.
The Ghost Midwife
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Author : Annelisa Christensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-27
The Ghost Midwife written by Annelisa Christensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-27 with Fiction categories.
London, England. 1679. When a maid becomes the focus of ghostly events that alarm the servants of Rotten Row, she can't leave. There's no place to go. She must expose a murder most foul or bear the consequences... Page-turning ghost story based on a 17th century ballad.
Popish Midwife
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Author : Annelisa Christensen
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2016-08-01
Popish Midwife written by Annelisa Christensen and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Fiction categories.
In seventeenth-century London, thirteen years after the plague and twelve years after the Great Fire, the restoration of King Charles II has dulled the memory of Cromwell's puritan rule, yet fear and suspicion are rife. Religious turmoil is rarely far from tipping the scales into hysteria.Elizabeth Cellier, a bold and outspoken midwife, regularly visits Newgate Prison to distribute alms to victims of religious persecution. There she falls in with the charming Captain Willoughby, a debtor, whom she enlists to gather information about crimes against prisoners, so she might involve herself in petitioning the king in their name.''Tis a plot, Madam, of the direst sort.' With these whispered words Willoughby draws Elizabeth unwittingly into the infamous Popish Plot and soon not even the fearful warnings of her husband, Pierre, can loosen her bond with it.This is the incredible true story of one woman ahead of her time and her fight against prejudice and injustice.
Midwifery Obstetrics And The Rise Of Gynaecology
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Author : Helen King
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Midwifery Obstetrics And The Rise Of Gynaecology written by Helen King and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with History categories.
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.
Midwifery From The Tudors To The 21st Century
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Author : Julia Allison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-14
Midwifery From The Tudors To The 21st Century written by Julia Allison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-14 with Medical categories.
This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women. With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice, it includes new research which provides evidence of the identity, social status, lives, families and practice of contemporary midwives, and argues that the excellent care given by ecclesiastically licensed midwives in Tudor England was not bettered until the twentieth century. Relying on a wide variety of archived and personally collected material, this history illuminates the lives, words, professional experiences and outcomes of midwives. It explores the place of women in society, the development of midwifery education and regulation, the seventeenth century arrival of the accoucheurs and the continuing drive by obstetricians to medicalise birth. A fascinating and compelling read, it highlights the politics and challenges that have shaped midwifery practice today and encourages readers to be confident in midwifery-led care and giving women choices in childbirth. It is an important read for all those interested in childbirth.
Health Disease And Society In Europe 1500 1800
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Author : Peter Elmer
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-09
Health Disease And Society In Europe 1500 1800 written by Peter Elmer and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-09 with History categories.
The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in the ongoing importance of a humor-based view of medicine and the treatment of illness. At the same time, new theories of the body emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to challenge established ideas in medical circles. In recent years, scholars have explored this terrain with increasingly fascinating results, often revising our previous understanding of the ways in which early modern Europeans discussed the body, health and disease. In order to understand these and related processes, historians are increasingly aware of the way in which every aspect of medical care and provision in early modern Europe was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age.