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Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-century Compendium

By Helen King

Book information

Publisher
Ltd., Ashgate Publishing
Year
2007
ISBN
075465396X, 9780754653967
Google Books ID
AZJeNT1PNx0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9004808 bytes)
Series
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Pages
228\239
Topic
History
Time added
2020-12-28 04:03:00

Description

The Gynaeciorum libri, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when men and women were in competition for control over childbirth, Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.

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