Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries

ISBN-13: 9780367520229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Jennifer F. Kosmin

Opis

This book explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of medicine, religious history, social history and Early Modern Italy.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Midwives, Medicine, and Religion;  2. Textual Deliveries: Reading Early Modern Obstetrical Treatises;  3. The Origins of Public Maternity Care in Northern Italy;  4. Midwifery Education and the Politics of Reproduction;  5. Surgical Instruction and the Clinicalization of the Maternity Ward;  6. Contested Deliveries;  Conclusion

O autorze

Jennifer F. Kosmin is Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research focuses on the intersections of the history of medicine, gender history, the history of the body, and the popular display and study of anatomy in eighteenth-century Italy.