The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant womb, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images’ creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books in Western Europe from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. During this period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of medicine and midwifery and were widel...
This volume of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-cultural and multi-period an...
Art related to birth stimulates debate, particularly if it is perceived to be taboo and challenging ...
Originally published in La pratique des accouchemens ... Paris, Chez Jean Boudot..., 1694.These imag...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
This thesis provides a history of early modern birth figures: images of the fetus in the disembodied...
Birth figures, or print images of the fetus in the uterus, were immensely popular in midwifery and s...
In the eighteenth century, the unanimous and uncontested authority of female midwives over the birth...
This paper examines the role of the images pregnant female body within the historical developments o...
This article addresses the trend, in early modern anatomical and midwifery books, of depicting the f...
Abstract Looking at the casebooks kept by the early modern astrologer-physician Richa...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"—the terms designating those born by Caesarean section...
The eighteenth century in Europe was a time of intellectual and cultural advancement, with new syste...
In seventeenth and eighteenth century France, the medical world took an increased interest in the fu...
Midwifery is an ancient profession that boasts the proud tradition of providing care for women and ...
This volume of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-cultural and multi-period an...
Art related to birth stimulates debate, particularly if it is perceived to be taboo and challenging ...
Originally published in La pratique des accouchemens ... Paris, Chez Jean Boudot..., 1694.These imag...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
This thesis provides a history of early modern birth figures: images of the fetus in the disembodied...
Birth figures, or print images of the fetus in the uterus, were immensely popular in midwifery and s...
In the eighteenth century, the unanimous and uncontested authority of female midwives over the birth...
This paper examines the role of the images pregnant female body within the historical developments o...
This article addresses the trend, in early modern anatomical and midwifery books, of depicting the f...
Abstract Looking at the casebooks kept by the early modern astrologer-physician Richa...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"—the terms designating those born by Caesarean section...
The eighteenth century in Europe was a time of intellectual and cultural advancement, with new syste...
In seventeenth and eighteenth century France, the medical world took an increased interest in the fu...
Midwifery is an ancient profession that boasts the proud tradition of providing care for women and ...
This volume of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-cultural and multi-period an...
Art related to birth stimulates debate, particularly if it is perceived to be taboo and challenging ...
Originally published in La pratique des accouchemens ... Paris, Chez Jean Boudot..., 1694.These imag...