Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century
Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for…
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Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century
This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women. Using a wide variety of archived and personally collected material, this history illuminates the lives, words, professional experiences and outcomes of midwives. With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice, it includes new research which provides evidence of the identity, social status, lives, families and practice of contemporary midwives and argues that the excellent care given by ecclesiastically licensed midwives in Tudor England was not bettered until the twentieth century.
It explores the place of women in society, the development of midwifery education and regulation, the seventeenth century arrival of the accoucheurs and the continuing drive by obstetricians