Midwives And Medical Men

Author : Jean Donnison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000853155

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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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1000527436

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Author : Jean Donnison
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Femmes - Angleterre - Conditions sociales
ISBN : 0435322508

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A history of the struggle for the control of childbirth.

Author : Adrian Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Jane B. Donegan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978-07-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015000794316

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Women & Men Midwives by Jane B. Donegan Pdf

Drawn from sixteenth to nineteenth century records to create an account of the midwife's status, duties, and skills, the author goes on to describe the development in eighteenth-century England and America of new techniques in obstetrics that led more and more to doctors to practice as regular accoucheurs. Before this except in cases when a surgeon might be summoned, childbearing was strictly a woman's concern. The author also explores the paradox of men taking the place of midwives among the upper and middle classes in an age that placed great importance on feminine modesty.

Author : Jane B. Donegan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978-07-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780837198682

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Women & Men Midwives by Jane B. Donegan Pdf

Drawn from sixteenth to nineteenth century records to create an account of the midwife's status, duties, and skills, the author goes on to describe the development in eighteenth-century England and America of new techniques in obstetrics that led more and more to doctors to practice as regular accoucheurs. Before this except in cases when a surgeon might be summoned, childbearing was strictly a woman's concern. The author also explores the paradox of men taking the place of midwives among the upper and middle classes in an age that placed great importance on feminine modesty.

Author : Edwin R. Van Teijlingen
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Maternal health services
ISBN : 1594540314

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Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth by Edwin R. Van Teijlingen Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. The readings have been selected to highlight the interplay between midwifery and medicine, reflecting the medicalization of childbirth. It highlights the major themes in both a historical and a current context, as well as western and non-western societies. Two major themes underlie the organization of this book: that the conception of midwifery must be broadened to encompass a sociological perspective; and that the ongoing trend toward the medicalization of midwifery is crucial to an understanding of the historical, current, and future status of midwifery. By medicalization of childbirth and midwifery the author mean the increasing tendency for women to prefer a hospital delivery to a home delivery, the increasing trend toward the use of technology and clinical intervention in childbirth, and the determination of medical practitioners to confine the role played by midwives in pregnancy and childbirth, if any, to a purely subordinate one.

Author : Rosemary Mander
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 0415275873

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Men and Maternity by Rosemary Mander Pdf

Men are now much more involved in childbearing, both as medical practitioners and as partners. This book traces the increase of male involvement in childbearing and considers the benefits or otherwise of male participation.

Author : Jean Towler,Joan Bramall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Samuel GREGORY (M.D., of Boston, U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020652513

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Man midwifery exposed and corrected, etc by Samuel GREGORY (M.D., of Boston, U.S.) Pdf

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Chris Bohjalian
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400032976

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Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This modern classic from the author of The Flight Attendant is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first published. A selection of Oprah's original Book Club that has sold more than two million copies. On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby’s life. She performs an emergency cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of stroke. But what if—as Sibyl's assistant later charges—the patient wasn't already dead? The ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt, forcing Sibyl to face the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience. Exploring the complex and emotional decisions surrounding childbirth, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Midwives
ISBN : BL:A0024341106

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Observations on the Impropriety of Men Being Employed in the Business of Midwifery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351917681

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

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 : Ina May Gaskin
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609801403

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Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin Pdf

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.