TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siegemund,Justina
AU  - Tatlock,Lynne
TI  - The court midwife
T2  - The other voice in early modern Europe
SN  - 9780226757100 (electronic bk.)
AV  - RG950 .S54 2005eb
U1  - 618.2/009 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Midwifery
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Pregnancy & Childbirth
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - მედიცინა--
KW  - მეანობა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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