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

By:

Siegemund, Justina, 1636-1705

Contributor(s):

Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: 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

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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.

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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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