Article ID: CBB001552730

Between the Foreign and the Local: French Midwifery, Traditional Practitioners, and Vernacular Medical Knowledge about Childbirth in Lima, Peru (2015)

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Warren, Adam (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 22, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 179-200


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese. Part of a Series: International Health/Global Health Dossier
Language: Portuguese

This article examines the politics of midwifery and the persecution of untitled female assistants in childbirth in early republican Peru. A close reading of late colonial publications and the works of Benita Paulina Cadeau Fessel, a French obstetriz director of a midwifery school in Lima, demonstrates both trans-Atlantic and local influences in the campaign against untitled midwives. Cadeau Fessel's efforts to promote midwifery built upon debates among writers in Peru's enlightened press, who vilified untrained midwives' and wet nurses' vernacular medical knowledge and associated them with Lima's underclass. One cannot understand the transfer of French knowledge about professional midwifery to Peru without reference to the social, political, and cultural context.

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Authors & Contributors
Kline, Wendy
Ruiz-Berdún, Dolores
Cordova, Isabel M.
Galley, Chris
Gomis, Alberto
Kotte, Gudrun
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Gender and History
Social History of Medicine
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Franz Steiner Verlag
Liverpool University Press
Mimesis
Oxford University Press
Routledge
Concepts
Midwifery
Childbirth
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Medicine and gender
People
Cunha, Euclides da
Smellie, William
Stone, Sarah
Time Periods
20th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, late
Medieval
Early modern
Places
Spain
Peru
Great Britain
Germany
United States
England
Institutions
Société Royale de Médecine
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