UID:
almahu_9949890724002882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780429265457
,
042926545X
,
9780429564949
,
0429564945
,
9780429560477
,
0429560478
,
0429556004
,
9780429556005
Uniform Title:
Generare, partorire, nascere.
Content:
"This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the Twentieth century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the impact of Christianity, the appearance of the man-midwife in the Eighteenth century, the medicalisation of childbirth, and, finally, the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history, that far from being linear, progressive or homogeneous, is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural, social and religious contexts, which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices, religious and civil prescription and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural, social and gender history, as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today's reality. It will be of great use to undergraduate students studying the history of childbirth, the history of medicine, the history of the body, as well as women's and gender history more broadly"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Filippini, Nadia Maria. Pregnancy, delivery, childbirth Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367211073
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429265457
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