Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Parts I Online

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Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Parts I, II and III

Scholars of the British Enlightenment who study obstetrical history traditionally focus on the rise of the male-midwife and competition between the sexes. By reprinting in facsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth, this comprehensive twelve-volume collection gives readers a much deeper, more nuanced understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. The set comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives. Important themes include medical developments, 'freaks of nature', women's 'conduct' and the legal and societal implications of birth and motherhood. Gender is Herbalists, diviners, nurses, midwives, and veterinary practitioners flourished in the medical world of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue. Using Western, African, and Caribbean remedies, they treated the maladies of slaves, white residents, and animals. While these enslaved medical practitioners were an important part of the plantation economy and colonial prosperity, they ultimately roused their fellow slaves to rebel against and overthrow French rule. Karol K. Weaver's Medical Revolutionaries asserts that understanding the origins of the Haitian Revolution--one of the most important political events of its time--requires understanding the role of these healers in inspiring and actually leading the overthrow. Weaver explains that the enslaved healers emerged as significant leaders of slave communities through a process of cultural retention, assimilation, and creation. The healers profited economically from their practices and used their position to conceive and implement an ideology of resistance via the destruction of human and animal life, occupational sabotage, and terrorism. *Author: Weaver, Karol K. *Binding Type: Paperback *Number of Pages: 163 *Publication Date: 2006/06/09 *Language: English *Dimensions: 9.04 x 6.04 x 0.55 inches Read medical textbooks online like Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Parts I here

Eighteenth Century British Midwifery, Part II, Vol. 8, 9781851968435

Eighteenth Century British Midwifery, Part II, Vol. 8, ISBN-13: 9781851968435, ISBN-10: 1851968431

Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Parts I Online

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