Book ID: CBB000774187

Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium (2007)

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King, Helen (Author)


Ashgate Publishing


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: x + 228 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description A study of the reception (esp. in the 18th century) of this compendium and its importance to the history of medicine (esp. gynecology) at different times. Focuses on the periods in Western medicine when “female difference” was asserted.


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Review Furdell, Elizabeth Lane (2008) Review of "Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 262). unapi

Review Park, Katharine (2009) Review of "Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 650). unapi

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Schlumbohm, Jürgen
Read, Kirk D.
Whiteley, Rebecca
Claudia Pancino
Nichols, Marcia D.
Woods, Robert
Concepts
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Medicine
Nurse midwives
Medicine and gender
Childbirth
Gynecology
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
15th century
Places
France
Germany
Great Britain
Zurich (Switzerland)
United States
Netherlands
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
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