Childbirth And The Display Of Authority In Early Modern France (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780754636199
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of medicine; Women's studies; Modern - General; France; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; History: World; Obstetrics; Pregnancy & Childbirth; Europe - France; Childbirth; History; Pregnancy
First sentence: Throughout the early modern period in France, chirurgiens accoucheurs [surgeon men-midwives] were predominantly associated with both sexual impropriety and physical danger.