Midwives Book - Or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered

Zusatztext Maintains the series' high standards ... this work is not only significant in itself (as the first modern edition of the full text of Sharp's manual), but also for the way in which it might require us to reassess the work of Laqueur and Butler Klappentext When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising. Zusammenfassung When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671! she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries! and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes! she produced a book that is instructive! accessible! witty! and constantly surprising.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Sharp, Jane Ashton Sharp
• Assisted by: Elaine Hobby (Editor), Elaine (Reader in Women's Studies Hobby (Editor), Prof. Elaine Hobby (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.1999
• EAN: 9780195086522
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508652-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850; Women Writers in English 1350-; Women Writers in English 1350-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Essays, MEDICAL / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health, MEDICAL / Essays, Literary essays, Midwifery