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Tending mothers and the fruits of the womb : the work of the midwife in the early modern German city / by Gabrielle Robilliard.
Author
Robilliard, Gabrielle
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Stuttgart : Frank Steiner Verlag, 2017.
Description
309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Midwifery
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Germany
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History
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Midwives
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Germany
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History
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Related name
Robert Bosch Stiftung. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin
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Series
Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Beiheft ; 64.
[More in this series]
Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte: Jahrbuch des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung. Beiheft, 0941-5033 ; 64
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Warwick, 2011.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-303) and indexes.
Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Glossary of German and medical terms
Introduction
Midwifery in leipzig
Histories of midwifery
Midwifery and enlightenment
Time and place : leipzig, 1650-1810
Sources
Overview
Midwifery, the city and the state between tradition and reform
Regulating midwifery from the middle ages to the reformation
From oath to instruction : midwifery regulation in Leipzig
Midwifery and the state
Reforming midwifery in Leipzig, c. 1650-1740
Conclusions
The midwifery landscape
Sworn midwives
Beifrauen (sworn apprentices)
Wickelweiber (swaddling women)
Gassenmagde (female street servants)
Healers and nurses
Appointing midwives
The changing structure of the midwifery landscape
Life-cycle, the household oeconomy and the meaning of midwifery work
The data
Age : the demise of maturity
Marriage and motherhood : from matron to working mother
Socio-economic milieus : the artisan midwife
Midwifery, family and household
Midwifery and the household oeconomy : the forces of poverty
Midwifery as a family tradition
The social and ideological meaning of midwifery
The moral economy of midwifery
The moral economy as a dialogue
Encroachment and the moral economy of early modern work
Patterns of encroachment
Midwives, clients and trust
The social and geographical patterns of client networks
Midwifery : a matter of trust
Mistrust : midwives, illegitimacy and infanticide
Defending a clientele, defining a client
Midwives, medical men and clients : demarcating the parameters of midwifery practice
Defining midwifery in medical discourses
Childbed maladies and childbed practitioners : the parameters of midwifery practice
Midwives, accoucheurs and the power of the 'patient'
The practice of municipal man-midwifery
'Natural' and 'unnatural' births
Turning point? booking the accoucheur
The 'difficult birth' of clinical midwifery
Maternity hospitals in Germany and Europe
The stadtaccoucheur plans a 'hebammeninstitut'
Midwifery in the lazarette
Renewing plans for a 'hebammeninstitut'
The triersches institut
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Indices.
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ISBN
9783515116688 ((paperback))
3515116680 ((paperback))
OCLC
1003287689
International Article Number
9783515116688
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