Overview

Scholars of the British Enlightenment who study obstetrical history traditionally focus on the rise of the male-midwife and competition between the sexes. This 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.

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Author:   Pam Lieske
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Weight:   2.993kg
ISBN:  

9781851968435

ISBN 10:   1851968431
Pages:   1632
Publication Date:   01 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part II Volume 5 The State of Midwifery Considered, William Smellie and his Critics John Douglas, A Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London, Westminster, &c.: Wherein an Effectual Method is Proposed, to Enable the Midwomen to Perform their Office in All Cases with as Much Ease, Speed, and Safety, as the Most Dexterous Midmen (1736); Edmund Chapman, A Reply to Mr Douglass's 'Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London and Westminster' Wherein his Trifling and Malicious Cavils are Answer'd (1737); John Astruc, 'A Short History of the Art of Midwifry' from Elements of Midwifery (1766); A Tolver, 'The Present State of Midwifery in Paris' from The present state of midwifery in Paris (1770); William Smellie and His Critics William Smellie, A Course of Lectures upon Midwifery (1742); William Smellie, Midwifery Certificate (1750); William Smellie, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1752); John Burton, A Letter to William Smellie, MD Containing Critical and Practical Remarks upon his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1753); William Douglas, A Letter to Dr Smelle [sic] (1748); Anon., An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled, 'A letter to Dr Smellie, Shewing the Impropriety of his New Invented Wooden Forceps, &c.' (c.1748); William Douglas., A Second Letter to Dr Smelle [sic] (c.1748); John Burton, A Letter to William Smellie (1753) Volume 6 Elizabeth Nihell Elizabeth Nihell, A treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760); [Tobias Smollett], Review of Elizabeth Nihell's A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery, in Critical Review (1760) Volume 7 Lying-in Hospitals 'The Institution and Oeconomy of the Charitable Infirmary' (1744); An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Lying-in Hospital for Married Women (1751); An Account of the Westminter New Lying-in Hosptial ([c.1767]); A Short Account of the Institution, Plan, and Present State of the New General Lying-in Hospital ([1787]) Male/Female Midwifery Debates A Defence of Dr Pocus and Dr Malus, against 'The Petition of the Unborn Babes' ([1751]); A Vindication of Man-Midwifery, Being the Answer of Dr. Pocus, Dr Maulus, and Dr Barebones...to 'The Petition of the Unborn Babes' (1752); [Philip Thicknesse], A letter to a young lady (1764); [John Roabard], A letter to the author of 'A letter to a Young Lady' (1764); [Philip Thicknesse], Man-Midwifery Analysed (1764); The Danger and Immodesty of The Present too general Custom of Unnecessarily Employing Men-Midwives, 2nd edn. (1772); Martha Mears, The Pupil of Nature; or Candid Advice to the Fair Sex (1797); Margaret Stephen, Domestic Midwife; or the Best Means of Preventing Danger in Childbirth, Considered (1795); John Blunt, [pseud. Samuel William Fores], Man-Midwifery Dissected, or, The Obstetric Family-Instructor (1793) Volume 8 Midwifery Lectures, Essays, and Addresses: 1750-1769 Thomas Young, A Course of Lectures upon Midwifery (1750); N Torriano, Compendium Obstetricii, or, A Small Tract on the Formation of the Foetus, and the Practice of Midwifery (1753); Christopher Kelly, A Course of Lectures on Midwifery (1757); [Robert Wallace Johnson], Some Friendly Cautions to the Heads of Families (1767); John Harvie, Practical Directions, Shewing a Method of Preserving the Perinaeum in Birth (1767); John Leake, A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1767); Notes Taken by an Anonymous Student of Lectures on Midwifery by Dr Colin Mackenzie at the General Lying-In Hospital (1770)

Reviews

The volumes reviewed here are the first four of a projected twelve volume series reproducing primary source materials for the history of midwifery and obstetrics in Britain between 1650 and 1800, focusing mainly on the eighteenth century. The volumes reviewed are well-made, pleasant to hold, bound in signatures, and printed on high-quality, acid free paper meeting American National Standards for the permanence of paper for printed library materials. They are designed as reference works that are A built to last.A The collection is not a comprehensive reproduction of all known midwifery and obstetric texts from this period; rather, it is an extensive but judicious selection of works that tends to focus on less accessible and lesser-known items, omitting those that have been reproduced in more accessible modern editions.Thus, Percival Willughby's Observations in Midwifery (1657), Jane Sharpe's The Midwives' Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered (1671), and the obstetrical treatises and beautifully illustrated anatomical tables of William Smellie (among others) have been left out of the collection, but this should not be problematic for the serious student of early British midwifery and obstetric practice who can easily locate originals or recent reproductions of these famous works elsewhere.The first four volumes of this series are a delight for the sociocultural critic or medical historian of the eighteenth century, who can look forward with much anticipation to the appearance of the next eight volumes. These books should be part of every respectable library dealing with the history of medicine in general and of midwifery or obstetrics in particular.

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