The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 by Adrian Wilson

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

Adrian Wilson

239 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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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...

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