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The Making of Man-midwifery
Childbirth in England, 1660-1770
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1995
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-85728-292-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-85728-292-4 (ISBN)
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This work charts the gender shift in the history of childbirth from midwifery as a women-only event to the male art of obstetrics. The book is intended for academic libraries (women's history, history of medicine, the family, broad early modern history) and childbirth professionals.
The 18th century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practies. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of births were being delivered by "men" - a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This confident and authoritative work of path-breaking research explores and explains this remarkable transformation - a shift not just in medical practices but in gender relations. The author challenges both the view that technology lay behind this shift and the view expounded by some feminist scholars that men simply elbowed women out of midwifery practice. By tracing the actual development and transmission of the new midwifery skills through the period both arguments are shown to be too crude. More importantly the author explores the sociocultural dimensions of childbirth and demonstrates with great skill and subtlety how a situation was created where increasing numbers of women (and their husbands) could rationally take the view that the emergent man-midwife was, in fact, the better bet. It was not the desires of medical men but the choices of mothers that summoned man-midwifery into being.
The 18th century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practies. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of births were being delivered by "men" - a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This confident and authoritative work of path-breaking research explores and explains this remarkable transformation - a shift not just in medical practices but in gender relations. The author challenges both the view that technology lay behind this shift and the view expounded by some feminist scholars that men simply elbowed women out of midwifery practice. By tracing the actual development and transmission of the new midwifery skills through the period both arguments are shown to be too crude. More importantly the author explores the sociocultural dimensions of childbirth and demonstrates with great skill and subtlety how a situation was created where increasing numbers of women (and their husbands) could rationally take the view that the emergent man-midwife was, in fact, the better bet. It was not the desires of medical men but the choices of mothers that summoned man-midwifery into being.
Part 1 The traditional management of childbirth; the bodily processes of childbirth; the practices of midwives; traditional obstetric surgery. Part 2 From obstetric surgery to man-midwifery: the Chamberlen instruments and their sale; the forceps contested - the London Deventerians; the impact of the forceps. Part 3 Whig and Tory men-midwives: conflict and initiative in London, c. 1720-40; a new synthesis - William Smellie; John Bamber, the vectis and the City of London; new institutions - the London lying-in hospitals. Part 4 The man as midwife: the varieties of man-midwifery; William Hunter - the man as midwife; two female cultures; conclusion.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.6.1995 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 illustrations |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 503 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-85728-292-2 / 1857282922 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85728-292-4 / 9781857282924 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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