[Free download] The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770
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| #1862900 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1995-06-16 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .74 x6.36 x9.51l,1.08 | File Name: 0674543238 | 239 pages |
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In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from the subsequent month of lying-in.
But in the eighteenth century there emerged a new practitioner: the "man-midwife" who acted in lieu of a midwife and delivered normal births. By the late eighteenth century, men-midwives had achieved a permanent...
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