Overview

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives.

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Author:   Pam Lieske
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Weight:   2.971kg
ISBN:  

9781851968428

ISBN 10:   1851968423
Pages:   1600
Publication Date:   01 April 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Volume 1 Popular Culture and Medicine Nicholas Culpeper, A Directory for Midwives (1651); Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses (1699); A M, A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets (1652); Some Observations made upon the Maldiva Nut (1694); J P, The Fruitful Wonder (1674); 'To Ladies of the Female Sex and All Others'; Announcement of the Birth of Monsters; Advertisement selling Medicine to Cure Barrenness; Advertisement by Stephen Draper; The Cruel Midwife (1693); The Man-Midwife Unmasqu'd (1734) Midwifery and the Law At the Council-Chamber in White-Hall (1688); The Trial of a Cause between Richard Maddox, Gent Plaintiff, and Dr M-y, Defendant, Physician, and Man-Midwife (1754) The Maternal Imagination: The Daniel Turner-James Blondel Controversy Daniel Turner, 'Of Spots and Marks ... Imprest upon the Skin of the Foetus, by the Force of the Mother's Fancy', De Morbis Cutaneis(1726); [James Augustus Blondel], The Strength of Imagination in Pregnant Women Examin'd (1727); Daniel Turner, 'A Defence of the XIIth Chapter', A Discourse Concerning Gleets (1729); James Augustus Blondel, The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Foetus Examin'd (1729); Daniel Turner, The Force of the Mother's Imagination upon her Foetus in Utero, Still Farther Considered (1730); John Henry Mauclerc, The Power of Imagination in Pregnant Women Discussed (1740) Volume 2 The Mary Toft Affair A Philosophical Enquiry into the Wonderful Coney-Warren (1726); The Wonder of Wonders (1726); Nathaniel St Andre, A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1727); Thomas Brathwaite, Remarks on A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1726); Sir Richard Manningham, An Exact Diary of What was Observ'd during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft (1726); James Douglas, An Advertisement Occasion'd by Some Passages in Sir R Manningham's Diary Lately Publish'd (1727); The Several Depositions of Edward Costen, Richard Stedman, John Sweetapple, Mary Peytoe, Elizabeth Mason, and Mary Costen; Cyriacus Ahlers, Some Observations concerning the Woman of Godlyman in Surrey (1726); A Shorter and Truer Advertisement (1727); Lemuel Gulliver [pseud], The Anatomist Dissected: or The Man-Midwife Finely Brought to Bed Being an Examination of the Conduct of Mr St Andre (1727); A Letter from a Male Physician in the Country, to the Author of the Female Physician in London (1726); St A-D-E's Miscarriage: or, A Full and True Account of the Rabbet-Woman (1727); Much Ado about Nothing: or, A Plain Refutation of all that has been Written or Said concerning the Rabbit-Woman of Godalming (1727); [Alexander Pope with William Pulteney], The Discovery: Or, The Squire turn'd Ferret (1726); William Hogarth, Cunicularii, or The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation Volume 3 Continental Midwives in Translation Francois Mauriceau, The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-Bed, 2nd edn (1683); Hendrik van Deventer, The Art of Midwifery Improv'd (1716); Pierre Dionis, A General Treatise of Midwifery (1719) Volume 4 Midwifery Texts for Women Sarah Stone, A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737); William Clark, The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art (1751); John Grigg, Advice to the Female Sex in General (1789)

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'These books should be part of every respectable library dealing with the history of medicine in general and of midwifery or obstetrics in particular.' Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences

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