tailieunhanh - THE ART OF MIDWIFERY

The absorption of midwifery into medical practice is a recent process, a development linked in many western countries with the diminishing role of midwives, the increased involvement of the man-midwife, the general practitioner and the obstetrician in the birthing process and, in the twentieth century, the increased hospitalization of childbirth. While it is generally recognized that the midwife has been with us since biblical times, and that midwifery is the oldest female occupation and without doubt one of the most important, the focus of historical studies has been very much on this process of decline in the midwife’s place in obstetric work—on competition between the traditional midwife and her. | THE WELLCOME SERIES IN THE HISTORY OE MEDICINE 77ie Art of MIDWIFERY Early Modern Midwives in Europe Edited by Hilary Marland Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details THE ART OF MIDWIFERY THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by and Roy Porter The Wellcome Institute Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy Monica Baly Vivisection in Historical Perspective Nicolaas Abo rtion in England 1919-1967 Barbara Brookes The Hospital in History Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter Women as Mothers in Pre-industrial England Valerie Fildes The Charitable Imperative Colin Jones Medicine at the Courts of Europe 1500-1837 Vivian Nutton Mad Tales from the Raj Waltraud Ernst British Medicine in an Age of Reform Roger French and Andrew Wear Doctor of Society Roy Porter Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge Stephen Lock and Roy Porter Medical Theory Surgical Practice Christopher Laurence The Popularization of Medicine 1650-1850 Roy Porter Women and Children First Valerie Fildes Lara Marks and Hilary Marland Psychiatry for the Rich Charlotte MacKenzie Literature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy .