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The court midwife / Justine Siegemund ; edited and translated by Lynne Tatlock.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 260 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226757100
  • 0226757102
  • 9780226757087
  • 0226757080
  • 9780226757094
  • 0226757099
Uniform titles:
  • Chur-Brandenburgische Hoff-Wehe-Mutter. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Court midwife.DDC classification:
  • 618.2/009 22
LOC classification:
  • RG950 .S54 2005eb
NLM classification:
  • 2005 L-178
  • WZ 290
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; The Court Midwife of the Electorate of Brandenburg; Appendix A: Original Table of Contexts; Appendix B: Glossary of New and Old Gynecological and Obstetric Terms; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index.
Summary: First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, s.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.

Print version record.

Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; The Court Midwife of the Electorate of Brandenburg; Appendix A: Original Table of Contexts; Appendix B: Glossary of New and Old Gynecological and Obstetric Terms; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index.

First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, s.

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