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The Making of Man-Midwifery : Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 Book

The Making of Man-Midwifery : Childbirth in England, 1660-1770
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The Making of Man-Midwifery : Childbirth in England, 1660-1770, 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. B, The Making of Man-Midwifery : Childbirth in England, 1660-1770
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  • The Making of Man-Midwifery : Childbirth in England, 1660-1770
  • Written by author Adrian Wilson
  • Published by Harvard University Press, 1995/06/01
  • 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. B
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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction 1
2 The bodily processes of childbirth 11
3 The practices of midwives 25
4 Traditional obstetric surgery 47
5 The Chamberlen instruments and their sale 65
6 The forceps contested: the London Deventerians 79
7 The impact of the forceps 91
8 Conflict and initiative in London, 1720-40 107
9 A new synthesis: William Smellie 123
10 John Bamber, the vectics, and the City of London 135
11 New institutions: the London Lying-in Hospitals 145
12 The varieties of man-midwifery 161
13 William Hunter: the man as midwife 175
14 Two female cultures 185
15 Conclusion 197
Bibliography 211
Index 229


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