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Book The Family Female Physician  Or  a Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints  and of Children in Early Infancy  By Alexander Hamilton    First Worcester Edition

Download or read book The Family Female Physician Or a Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints and of Children in Early Infancy By Alexander Hamilton First Worcester Edition written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spilling the beans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Moss
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-19
  • ISBN : 1847796958
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Spilling the beans written by Sarah Moss and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. Spilling the Beans explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women’s fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children’s stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women’s studies and material culture.

Book Brought to Bed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1988-11-10
  • ISBN : 0198020910
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Brought to Bed written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-11-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth places because they believed the increased medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable. Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did not immediately decline. She concludes that birthing women held considerable power in determining labor and delivery events as long as childbirth remained in the home. The move to the hospital in the twentieth century gave the medical profession the upper hand. Leavitt also discusses recent events in American obstetrics that illustrate how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth.

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gender  Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth Century Literature

Download or read book Gender Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth Century Literature written by Jenifer Buckley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and literary ramifications, this book engages critically with the notion that a pregnant woman could alter the development of her foetus with the power of her thoughts and feelings. Eighteenth-century authors sought urgently to define, understand and control the concept of maternal imagination as they responded to and provoked fundamental questions about female intellect and the relationship between mind and body. Interrogating the multiple models of maternal imagination both separately and as a holistic set of socio-cultural components, the author uncovers the discourse of maternal imagination across eighteenth-century drama, popular print, medical texts, poetry and novels. This overdue rehabilitation of the pregnant woman in literature is essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth century, gender and literary history.

Book A Practical treatise on the diseases of women

Download or read book A Practical treatise on the diseases of women written by Theodore Gaillard Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mary Wollstonecraft

Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft written by Jane Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. This interdisciplinary selection, which is organized by theme and genre, demonstrates Wollstonecraft's importance in contemporary social, political and sexual theory and in Romantic studies. The book examines the reception of Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman but it also deals with the full range of her work from travel writing, education, religion and conduct literature to her novels, letters and literary reviews. As well as reproducing the most important modern Wollstonecraft scholarship the collection tracks the development of the author's reputation from the nineteenth century. The essays reprinted here (from early appreciations by George Eliot, Emma Goldman and Virginia Woolf to the work of twenty-first century scholars) include many of the most influential accounts of Wollstonecraft's remarkable contribution to the development of modern political and social thought. The book is essential reading for students of Wollstonecraft and late eighteenth-century women's writing, history, and politics.

Book Diseases in the District of Maine 1772   1820

Download or read book Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 1820 written by Richard J. Kahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, correspondence, biographical sketches, and personal commentary. Throughout his fifty-year practice, beginning with a preceptorship in Hingham, Massachusetts, Jeremiah Barker documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods. He performed experiments and autopsies, became interested in the new chemistry of Lavoisier, risked scorn in his use of alkaline remedies, studied epidemic fever and approaches to bloodletting, and struggled to understand epidemic fever, childbed fever, cancer, public health, consumption, mental illness, and the "dangers of spirituous liquors.""--

Book Dress in the Age of Jane Austen

Download or read book Dress in the Age of Jane Austen written by Hilary Davidson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Practical Surgery

Download or read book Practical Surgery written by Robert Liston and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Changes Produced in the Nervous System by Civilization

Download or read book Changes Produced in the Nervous System by Civilization written by Robert Verity and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Researches on the Developement  Structure and Diseases of the Teeth

Download or read book Researches on the Developement Structure and Diseases of the Teeth written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: