Medicalising childbirth : a historical contextualisation of childbirth in early modern Britain, depicting the rise of male involvement in childbirth and its resulting effect on the decline of the traditional female midwives

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Quah, Sheryl
• مؤلفون آخرون: Miles Alexander Powell
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2017
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69776
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Midwifery is an ancient profession that boasts the proud tradition of providing care for women and babies throughout the period of a woman's pregnancy and during childbirth. Contextualising this study against the historical background of Britain, we observed that before the seventeenth centu...