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

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...

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Main Author: Quah, Sheryl
Other Authors: Miles Alexander Powell
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69776
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English