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

Sharp, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195086538 ISBN 13 : 9780195086539

Editeur : Oxford University Press, Usa, 1999

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.

A propos du livre

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)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195086538
• ISBN 13: 9780195086539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie