Fixing Women : The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Britain and America

Fixing Women The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Britain and America

"Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nichols, Marcia D., 1978- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco, CA : University of California, Medical Humanities Consortium [2021]
Colección:Perspectives in medical humanities.
Materias:
Smellie, William, > 1697-1763
Denman, Thomas, > 1733-1815
Bard, Samuel, > 1742-1821
Bard, Samuel, > 1742-1821.
Denman, Thomas, > 1733-1815.
Smellie, William, > 1697-1763.
1700-1799
Obstetrics
Midwifery
Gynecology
Gynecologie > Histoire.
Obstetrique > Histoire.
Sages-femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Sages-femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Midwives > United States > History > 18th century.
Gynecology > History.
Obstetrics > History.
Midwifery > United States > History > 18th century.
Midwifery > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
United States
Great Britain
History
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009845039106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Man-Midwife as picaresque hero: William Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Art of Midwifery
  • 2. Anatomizing "an Hairy Monster": William Smellie's A Set of Anatomical Tables
  • 3. Domesticating the man-midwife: Thomas Denman and the accoucheur of feeling
  • 4. The American hero-accoucheur and medical education: Samuel Bard's A Compendium of Midwifery.

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