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1 online resource (314 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary of German and Medical Terms; Introduction; Midwifery in Leipzig; Histories of midwifery; Midwifery and Enlightenment; Time and place: Leipzig, 1650-1810; Sources; Overview; Chapter One: Midwifery, the City and the State Between Tradition and Reform; Regulating midwifery from the Middle Ages to the Reformation; From oath to instruction: midwifery regulation in Leipzig; Midwifery and the state; Reforming midwifery in Leipzig, c. 1650-1740; Conclusions; Chapter Two: The Midwifery Landscape; Sworn midwives |
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Beifrauen (sworn apprentices)Wickelweiber (swaddling women); Gassenmägde (female street servants); Healers and nurses; Appointing midwives; The changing structure of the midwifery landscape; Chapter Three: Life-Cycle, the Household Oeconomy and the Meaning of Midwifery Work; The data; Age: the demise of maturity; Marriage and motherhood: from matron to working mother; Socio-economic milieus: the artisan midwife; Midwifery, family and household; Midwifery and the household oeconomy: the forces of poverty; Midwifery as a family tradition; The social and ideological meaning of midwifery |
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ConclusionsChapter Four: The Moral Economy of Midwifery; The moral economy as a dialogue; Encroachment and the moral economy of early modern work; Patterns of encroachment; Conclusions; Chapter Five: Midwives, Clients and Trust; The social and geographical patterns of client networks; Midwifery: a matter of trust; Mistrust: midwives, illegitimacy and infanticide; Defending a clientele, defining a client; Conclusions; Chapter Six: Midwives, Medical Men and Clients: Demarcating the Parameters of Midwifery Practice; Defining midwifery in medical discourses |
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Childbed maladies and childbed practitioners: the parameters of midwifery practiceMidwives, Accoucheurs and the power of the 'patient'; The practice of municipal man-midwifery; 'Natural' and 'unnatural' births; Turning point? Booking the Accoucheur; Conclusions; Chapter Seven: The 'Difficult Birth' of Clinical Midwifery; Maternity hospitals in Germany and Europe; The Stadtaccoucheur plans a 'Hebammeninstitut'; Midwifery in the lazarette; Renewing plans for a 'Hebammeninstitut'; The Triersches Institut; Conclusions; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Indices |
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Midwifery -- Germany -- History.
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Midwifery. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
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Midwives -- Germany -- History.
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Midwives. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Robilliard, Gabrielle. Tending Mothers and the Fruits of the Womb : The Work of the Midwife in the Early Modern German City. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, ©2017 |
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3515116699 |
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9783515116695 (electronic book) |
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