The Midwives Book: Or The Whole Art Of Midwifry Discovered (Women Writers In English 1350-1850) - Couverture souple

Sharp, Jane

 
9780195086539: The Midwives Book: Or The Whole Art Of Midwifry Discovered (Women Writers In English 1350-1850)

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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 (Years Work in English Studies)

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9780195086522: The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  019508652X ISBN 13 :  9780195086522
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1999
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