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Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients
Robert Woods
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Description for Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients
Hardcover. A remarkable history of midwifery in the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; MQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1238.
How did midwives deliver women in the past? What was their understanding of anatomy and physiology? How did they cope with unnatural presentations, haemorrhage, miscarriage and stillbirths, constipation? Were lives being prolonged and risks diminished? Midwifery case notes offer a considerable source of evidence, which, when used with care and imagination, help to tackle these questions. Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie demonstrates this in a fascinating way by analysing the work of two well-known midwives. Sarah Stone's A Complete Practice of Midwifery was published in London in 1737. Mrs Stone had been a midwife in Bridgwater, Taunton ... Read more
How did midwives deliver women in the past? What was their understanding of anatomy and physiology? How did they cope with unnatural presentations, haemorrhage, miscarriage and stillbirths, constipation? Were lives being prolonged and risks diminished? Midwifery case notes offer a considerable source of evidence, which, when used with care and imagination, help to tackle these questions. Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie demonstrates this in a fascinating way by analysing the work of two well-known midwives. Sarah Stone's A Complete Practice of Midwifery was published in London in 1737. Mrs Stone had been a midwife in Bridgwater, Taunton ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1238g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381410
SKU
V9781781381410
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99-50
About Robert Woods
Bob Woods was Professor of Academic History in the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Previous publications include 'An Atlas of Victorian Mortality' (Liverpool University Press, 1997) and 'The Demography of Victorian England and Wales' (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Chris Galley studied for a PhD under co-author Robert Woods at the ... Read more
Reviews for Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients
Reviews 'The case-notes are fascinating if sometimes rather gruesome reading, admirably set in context and interestingly discussed. The analysis is meticulous, insightful and wide-ranging even if I do not agree with all of the conclusions, and the book is an extremely valuable addition to the literature, particularly for a very welcome consideration of outcomes as well as the development ... Read more