The Midwives Book, Or, The Whole Art of Midwifry DiscoveredOxford University Press, 1999 - 323 pages Jane Sharp had been a midwife for more than 30 yeas when she published The Midwives Book in 1671. The first seventeenth-century British woman to publish such a manual. Drawing extensively on medical textbooks written by her male predecessors and contemporaries Sharp produced a serious medical handbook that discusses the full range of matters concerned with human reproduction, now offering a route into the world of seventeenth-century sexuality. |
Table des matières
THE MIDWIVES BOOK OR THE WHOLE ART OF MIDWIFRY | 1 |
Medical Glossary 305 | 28 |
The Figure Explained Being a Dissection | 116 |
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The Midwives Book, Or, The Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered Jane Sharp,Elaine Hobby Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750 Raymond Stephanson Aucun aperçu disponible - 2004 |