Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology write by Helen King. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen King here concentrates on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the 'man-midwife' William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the 'father of medicine', Hippocrates, as the 'father of midwifery'. The close study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueur's model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that women's difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female 'difference' was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology makes a genuine contribution not only to the history of medicine and its subfield of gynaecology, but also to gender and cultural studies.
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology write by Helen King. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Science of Woman
The Science of Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Woman write by Ornella Moscucci. This book was released on 1990. The Science of Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a cultural product of a wider, more political context.
Making Women's Medicine Masculine
Making Women's Medicine Masculine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Women's Medicine Masculine write by Monica H. Green. This book was released on 2008-03-20. Making Women's Medicine Masculine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe. Using sources ranging from the writings of the famous twelfth-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, all the way to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, and covering both medicine and surgery, this study demonstrates that men slowly established more and more authority in diagnosing and prescribing treatments for women's gynaecological conditions (especially infertility) and even certain obstetrical conditions. Even if their 'hands-on' knowledge of women's bodies was limited by contemporary mores, men were able to establish their increasing authority in this and all branches of medicine due to their greater access to literacy and the knowledge contained in books, whether in Latin or the vernacular. As Monica Green shows, while works written in French, Dutch, English, and Italian were sometimes addressed to women, nevertheless even these were often re-appropriated by men, both by practitioners who treated women and by laymen interested to learn about the 'secrets' of generation. While early in the period women were considered to have authoritative knowledge on women's conditions (hence the widespread influence of the alleged authoress 'Trotula'), by the end of the period to be a woman was no longer an automatic qualification for either understanding or treating the conditions that most commonly afflicted the female sex - with implications of women's exclusion from production of knowledge on their own bodies extending to the present day.
Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology write by Thomas F. Baskett. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical profession and represent the historic tradition and language of the speciality. This collection aims to perpetuate the names and contributions of pioneers and offer introductory profiles to the founders in whose steps we follow. This third edition includes 26 new entries, as well as expanded detail, illustration and quotation for existing entries. Biographical data and historical and medical context are discussed for each of the 391 names, with reference to 34 countries, reflecting the field's far reaching origins. More than 1700 original references feature, alongside an extensive bibliography of more than 2500 linked references to assist readers searching for more detailed information. This is a volume for physicians, midwives, medical historians, medical ethicists and all those interested in the history and evolution of obstetrical and gynaecological treatment.
