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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813906503321

Autore

Woods Robert

Titolo

Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie : eighteenth-century midwives and their patients / / Robert Woods and Chris Galley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-78138-215-8

1-78138-752-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 p.)

Disciplina

618.20094109033

Soggetti

Midwifery - Great Britain - History - 18th century

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-539) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Midwives, their women and patients -- Reading case notes -- Sarah Stone, Somerset midwife -- Mrs. Stone's Complete Practice -- William Smellie, man-midwife and instructor -- Dr. Smellie's London cases -- The new obstetrics -- Other cases from London -- Midwifery through case histories.

Sommario/riassunto

A remarkable history of midwifery in the eighteenth century.