Robilliard, Gabrielle (Author)
Franz Steiner Verlag
Physical Details: 309 pp.
Language: English
The early modern period saw a fundamental shift in the history of childbirth from midwifery as a traditional, largely female occupation to modern obstetrics. The seeds of this transformation were sown in the cities, where municipal governments and their medical officials began reworking the often centuries-old systems of municipal midwifery. In Leipzig they overhauled midwife education and in the 1730s appointed a municipal man-midwife. But why all the commotion about midwifery? How 'novel' were these developments really? And how did all these changes affect the everyday work of the city’s midwives? Drawing on a vast array of administrative sources, Gabrielle Robilliard explores the world of Leipzig’s midwives and early man-midwives from 1650 to 1810. Employing a prosopographical approach, she illuminates in minute detail the occupational culture and structure of both official and unofficial midwifery within the city—including social and economic milieus, client networking practices, and inter- and intraprofessional rivalries—and examines the nature of the encounter between traditional practice and new ways of organising urban midwifery provision.
...MoreReview Merry Wiesner-Hanks (2019) Review of "Tending Mothers and the Fruits of the Womb". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 161-162).
Review Merry Wiesner-Hanks (2019) Review of "Tending Mothers and the Fruits of the Womb". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 161-162).
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