Format:
Online-Ressource (294 p.)
ISBN:
9780226757087
Series Statement:
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
Content:
First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, s
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; The Court Midwife of the Electorate of Brandenburg; Appendix A: Original Table of Contexts; Appendix B: Glossary of New and Old Gynecological and Obstetric Terms; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226757100
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226757087
Additional Edition:
Print version The Court Midwife
Language:
English
Keywords:
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