In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept the alteration of the experience of birth and the ideology surrounding it in eighteenth-century Britain. While the imposition of the man-midwife and the reframing of birth as a disease to be cured in some ways forced childbearing to shift to a medicalized event, many practices persisted from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, illustrating a vein of consistency in a seemingly tumultuous period. Furthermore, the changes that did take root were not solely the purview of the male medical community, but were influenced by women who found their own ways to operate within and shape the male-dominated sphere of medicalized birth. By ref...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how differing circumstances came together to help or hinde...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how differing circumstances came together to help or hinde...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.The dissertation compares the emergence of midwifery...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
This thesis explores the development of midwifery in Glasgow and the West of Scotland between c.1740...
This thesis explores the development of midwifery in Glasgow and the West of Scotland between c.1740...
Until the sixteenth century, childbirth in England was the exclusive domain of women and was orchest...
Midwives had long been considered experts in pregnancy and childbirth prior to the Scientific Revolu...
Midwifery is an ancient profession that boasts the proud tradition of providing care for women and ...
This thesis intends to show how the field of British midwifery changed through the rise of male-midw...
This is a research paper regarding the history of midwifery as a profession within the United States...
This thesis examines the working milieu of midwives in the urban west midlands, primarily Birmingham...
In eighteenth-century France, concerns over a perceived population crisis and a neo-Hippocratic comm...
In eighteenth-century France, concerns over a perceived population crisis and a neo-Hippocratic comm...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how differing circumstances came together to help or hinde...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how differing circumstances came together to help or hinde...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.The dissertation compares the emergence of midwifery...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
This thesis explores the development of midwifery in Glasgow and the West of Scotland between c.1740...
This thesis explores the development of midwifery in Glasgow and the West of Scotland between c.1740...
Until the sixteenth century, childbirth in England was the exclusive domain of women and was orchest...
Midwives had long been considered experts in pregnancy and childbirth prior to the Scientific Revolu...
Midwifery is an ancient profession that boasts the proud tradition of providing care for women and ...
This thesis intends to show how the field of British midwifery changed through the rise of male-midw...
This is a research paper regarding the history of midwifery as a profession within the United States...
This thesis examines the working milieu of midwives in the urban west midlands, primarily Birmingham...
In eighteenth-century France, concerns over a perceived population crisis and a neo-Hippocratic comm...
In eighteenth-century France, concerns over a perceived population crisis and a neo-Hippocratic comm...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how differing circumstances came together to help or hinde...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how differing circumstances came together to help or hinde...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.The dissertation compares the emergence of midwifery...