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History of Obstetrics

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
2000Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.
2000Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.
2000Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
2004The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.
2005Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.
2006Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
2006Nurse-midwifery: The birth of a new American profession.
2007Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.
2008On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.
2008At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.
2009Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
2011A history of endometriosis.
2011Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.
2013Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.
2013The rise of fetal and neonatal physiology: Basic science to clinical care.
2013Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
2015Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.
2016Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.
2016Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.
2016Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.
2016A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.
2017Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.
2018Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.
2018Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
2020The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2021Coming home: How midwives changed birth.