Seventeenth Century London Midwives

Author : Doreen Evenden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521027853
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London written by Doreen Evenden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Doreen Evenden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seventeenth Century London Midwives written by Doreen Evenden and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hilary Marland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134818130
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Midwifery written by Hilary Marland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adrian Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663358
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Man-Midwifery written by Adrian Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mrs. Jane Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Midwives Book written by Mrs. Jane Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1671 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work supplied English midwives and English women with a compendium of information for the Continent and from the author's own thirty years of experience.

Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142889
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Bodies written by Laura Gowing and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Annelisa Christensen
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1783019670
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popish Midwife written by Annelisa Christensen and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Julia Allison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000090000
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century written by Julia Allison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351917684
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology written by Helen King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Annelisa Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999817398
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Midwife written by Annelisa Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.