Man-Midwifery Exposed and Corrected
Man-Midwifery Exposed and Corrected

Author: Samuel Gregory

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781548141707

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Throughout history, midwives have attended women during childbirth. Although they were exclusively female, midwives were revered in many ancient civilizations and paid well for their services. For reasons related to societal norms and gender roles, physicians, historically male, did not customarily enter the lying-in chamber until doing so became a lucrative endeavor. Man-midwives or accoucheurs, non-existent before the mid-18th century, were physicians who attended women during childbirth - the precursor to today's obstetricians. How and why did childbirth transfer from the control of women and the hands of midwives to the domain of physicians?Housed in this book are two 19th century pamphlets presenting opposing arguments for the training and education of females as midwives and the expansion of the male physician's role to include man-midwifery. The pamphlets provide historical documentation of the patriarchal and coercive practices of physicians that lead to the control of the midwifery profession and childbearing women, and, therefore, prepared the foundation for the medicalization of childbirth.

Man-Midwifery Exposed and Corrected
Man-Midwifery Exposed and Corrected

Author: Samuel Gregory

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781391664828

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Excerpt from Man-Midwifery Exposed and Corrected: Or the Employment of Men to Attend Women in Childbirth and in Other Delicate Circumstances, Shown to Be a Modern Innovation Unnecessary, Unnatural and Injurious to the Physical Welfare of the Community Tue subject of the following pages is one of grave importance to the whole community. Within a few years a practice, at first considered an outrage against propriety, a criminal offence, has silently grown into a custom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.