Midwifery From The Tudors To The 21st Century

Author : Julia Allison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000090000

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Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century by Julia Allison Pdf

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 : Sue Macdonald,Gail Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323834834

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Mayes' Midwifery - E-Book by Sue Macdonald,Gail Johnson Pdf

Mayes’ Midwifery is a core text for students in the UK, known and loved for its in-depth approach and its close alignment with curricula and practice in this country. The sixteenth edition has been fully updated by leading midwifery educators Sue Macdonald and Gail Johnson, and input from several new expert contributors ensures this book remains at the cutting edge. The text covers all the main aspects of midwifery in detail, including the various stages of pregnancy, possible complexities around childbirth, and psychological and social considerations related to women’s health. It provides the most recent evidence along with detailed anatomy and physiology information, and how these translate into practice. Packed full of case studies, reflective activities and images, and accompanied by an ancillary website with 600 multiple choice questions and downloadable images, Mayes’ Midwifery makes learning easy for nursing students entering the profession as well as midwives returning to practice and qualified midwives working in different settings in the UK and overseas. Expert contributors include midwifery academics and clinicians, researchers, physiotherapists, neonatal nurse specialists, social scientists and legal experts Learning outcomes and key points to support structured study Reflective activities to apply theory to practice Figures, tables and breakout boxes help navigation and revision Associated online resources with over 600 MCQs, reflective activities, case studies, downloadable image bank to help with essay and assignment preparation Further reading to deepen knowledge and understanding New chapters addressing the issues around being a student midwife and entering the profession More detail about FGM and its legal implications, as well as transgender/binary individuals in pregnancy and childbirth New information on infection and control following from the COVID-19 pandemic Enhanced artwork program

Author : Hilary Marland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134818129

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The Art of Midwifery by Hilary Marland Pdf

The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The Art of Midwifery is an excellent resource for students of women's history, social history and medical history.

Author : Doreen Evenden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780521027854

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The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London by Doreen Evenden Pdf

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 : Jean Towler,Joan Bramall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000853551

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Midwives in History and Society by Jean Towler,Joan Bramall Pdf

Originally published in 1986, this book examines the history of midwifery, concentrating on 19th and 20th Century Britain. It shows how the evolution of the midwife has been influenced by cultural waves which started in the Near East and Egypt in pre-classical times and slowly spread Northwards and Eastwards over Europe. The authors emphasize the effects of specialization and professionalization upon midwifery and also the influence of male authority and interest group politics. The evolution of the educated qualified midwife of the 20th Century is recorded, leading up to the ongoing debates about high technology birth vis-à-vis natural birth and home deliveries.

Author : Audrey Eccles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015009561732

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Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England by Audrey Eccles Pdf

Author : Anne Borsay,Billie Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781350310865

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Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700 by Anne Borsay,Billie Hunter Pdf

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day.

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 075465396X

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Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology by Helen King Pdf

The Gynaeciorum libri, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when men and women were in competition for control over childbirth, Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.

Author : Jean Donnison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000853155

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Midwives and Medical Men by Jean Donnison Pdf

Originally published in 1977 and as a second edition in 1988, this book introduces the reader to the women at the top of the midwifery profession up until the 17th Century who attended the aristocracy and Royalty. The author shows how their successors were gradually driven out of the better paid work until in the middle of the 19th Century it appeared that attendance on childbearing women would inevitably become the male monopoly it has virtually become in North America. This downward trend was reversed, thanks to efforts to preserve for women the choice of female attendance in childbirth and also to the labour of philanthropists to improve maternity services to the poor. However, the drive for the institutionalization and mechanization of childbirth during the 20th Century as well as a chronic shortage of midwives, has once again shone a spotlight on the profession. This unique history of developments in midwifery will be of interest to students of medical politics, 19th Century social history, the sociology of the professions and gender studies.

Author : Adrian Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429663352

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The Making of Man-Midwifery by Adrian Wilson Pdf

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 : James Hobson Aveling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : BL:A0022035044

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English Midwives: Their History and Prospects by James Hobson Aveling Pdf

Author : Joan Donley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : CORNELL:31924050262926

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Save the Midwife by Joan Donley Pdf

"In this book ... Joan Donley explores what has happened to midwives and midwifery in New Zealand this century. She traces the takeover of childbirth by medical men armed with forceps and sedation and their relentless undermining of the statues of the midwife so that now the very survival of her profession is at stake.

Author : Hilary Marland,Anne Marie Rafferty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1138868213

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Midwives, Society and Childbirth by Hilary Marland,Anne Marie Rafferty Pdf

Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric science in particular from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession, while stressing the importance of regional influences and locality. Dr Anne Marie Rafferty, Philadelphia, Dr Hilary Marland, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Dr Irvine Louden, Oxfordshire, Joan Mottram, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medic

Author : Susan Cohen
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0747815070

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The Midwife by Susan Cohen Pdf

The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's greatest hour of need, potent social and cultural symbol. Though the role of midwife has existed since time immemorial, it is only since the Victorian era that it has been a recognized and regulated profession. This book, from social history expert Susan Cohen, looks at midwifery in Britain from ancient times up to the present, paying particular attention to its incredible medical and social advances of the last 150 years. It is a fully illustrated tour that takes in fictional midwives such as Dickens' Sarey Gamp, the founding of the Royal College of Midwives in 1881, the Second World War, the forming of the NHS and the Central Midwives Board, and looks at the increasing medicalization of childbirth and the countervailing trend for giving birth at home.

Author : Pam Lieske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Midwifery
ISBN : 1848934009

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Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Parts I, II and III by Pam Lieske Pdf

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives.