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Introduction: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (2016)

Oren-Magidor, Daphna (Author)
Rider, Catherine (Author)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
Pages: 211-223
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkv141

URI: https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/shm/hkv141

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Fertility Medicine Reproductive medicine Childbirth Medieval Early modern England

Although the history of pregnancy and childbirth have been studied extensively in recent decades, infertility has received less historical attention, especially for the pre-modern period. This collection makes steps towards filling this gap. The introduction offers some insights on the significance of the history of infertility to scholarship on gender relations and the construction of gendered identities, midwifery and reproductive medicine, and the history of the family. It further offers some context and background to the history of infertility by briefly surveying how premodern medicine explained fertility problems and sought to treat them, and the social dimensions of infertility in this period. In addition, it highlights key themes in the articles to follow.

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