Download or read book Midwifery Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology written by Helen King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen King here concentrates on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the 'man-midwife' William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the 'father of medicine', Hippocrates, as the 'father of midwifery'. The close study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueur's model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that women's difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female 'difference' was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology makes a genuine contribution not only to the history of medicine and its subfield of gynaecology, but also to gender and cultural studies.

Download or read book A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery The second edition with large additions and improvements written by Edmund CHAPMAN and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Making of Man Midwifery written by Adrian Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practices. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of babies were being delivered by men – a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This authoritative and challenging work explains this transformation in medical practice and remarkable shift in gender relations. By tracing the actual development and transmission of the new midwifery skills through the period, the book addresses both technological and feminist arguments of the period. The study is distinctive in treating childbirth as both a bodily and a social event and in explaining how the two were intimately connected. Practical obstetrics is shown to have been shaped by the social relations surrounding deliveries, and specific techniques were associated with distinctive places and political allegiances. The books studies how increasing numbers emergent male-midwives had overtaken women in the skill of delivering children and how as such expectant mothers chose to use these male-midwives, thus heralding the growth of male-midwives in the period.

Download or read book The history of medicine surgery and anatomy from the creation of the world to the commencement of the nineteenth century written by William Hamilton (M.B., of Plymouth.) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographie / Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Obstetrics written by John Whitridge Williams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pain written by J. Moscoso and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London Additions No 4 18 written by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lectures on Materia Medica and Therapeutics written by John Brodhead Beck and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Childbirth The medicalization of obstetrics written by Philip K. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.