The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660--1770

ISBN-13: 9780367077716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Adrian Wilson

Opis

Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery explains the transformation in medical practice and remarkable shift in gender relations in the development and transmission of the new midwifery skills through the eighteenth century, the book addresses both technological and feminist arguments of the period.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  Part I: The Traditional Management of Birth  2. The Bodily Processes of Childbirth  3. The Practices of Midwives  4. Traditional Obstetric Surgery  Part II: From Obstetric Surgery to Man-Midwifery  5. The Chamberlen Instruments and Their Sale  6. The Forceps Contested: The London Deventrians  7. The Impact of the Forceps  Part III: Whig and Tory Men-Midwives  8. Conflict and Initiative in London, 1720-40  9. A New Synthesis: William Smellie  10. John Bamber, the Vectis, and the City of London  11. New Institutions: The London Lying-in Hospitals  Part IV: The Man as Midwife  12. The Varieties of Man-Midwifery  13. William Hunter: The Man as Midwife  14. Two Female Cultures  15. Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Adrian Wilson