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Authority, gender, and midwifery in early modern Italy : contested deliveries / Jennifer F. Kosmin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kosmin, Jennifer F., author.
- Series:
- History of medicine in context
- The history of medicine in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midwifery--Italy--History.
- Midwifery.
- Midwives--Italy--History.
- Midwives.
- Childbirth--Religious aspects.
- Childbirth.
- Childbirth--Political aspects--Italy--History.
- Parturition.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- Childbirth--Political aspects.
- History.
- Italy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Midwifery.
- Parturition.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Jennifer F. Kosmin is Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research focuses on the intersections of the history of medicine, gender history, the history of the body, and the popular display and study of anatomy in eighteenth-century Italy.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Midwives, medicine, and religion
- The Church's interest
- Baptism and the soul
- Marriage, sexuality, and the courts
- Childbirth, the sacred, and the Inquisition
- Ordering the early modern medical marketplace
- The impact and limits of legislation
- Conclusion
- 2 Textual deliveries: reading early modern obstetrical treatises
- The masculine origins of early modern midwifery manuals
- An Italian midwifery manual? Scipione Mercurio's La Comare o Raccoglitrice (1596)
- Eighteenth-century obstetrical texts and the emergence of a professional discourse
- Theological embryology and the cesarean operation
- 3 The origins of public maternity care in Northern Italy
- The maternity hospital as institution
- "Those young women who imprudently lose their honor": Maternity care in Turin
- Protecting honor, disciplining sexuality: Maternity wards in a longer frame
- Daily life in an eighteenth-century maternity ward
- Conclusion
- 4 Midwifery education and the politics of reproduction
- Populationism and pronatalism
- A school for midwives
- Recruitment
- Curriculum
- Expectations and realities
- Resistance and repercussions
- 5 Surgical instruction and the clinicalization of the maternity ward
- Surgeons learn the trade
- Obstetrical machines and the instruction of touch
- Critiques of simulation
- The maternity ward becomes a clinic
- 6 Contested deliveries
- Clients, communities, and conflict
- Midwives and surgeons
- Interprofessional rivalries
- Between church and state: the case of Marianna Boi
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781000174663
- 1000174662
- 9781000174601
- 1000174603
- 9781003056072
- 1003056075
- 9781000174632
- 1000174638
- Publisher Number:
- 40030178816
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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