Title: Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Description: The Gynaeciorum libri, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen King here concentrates on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine.
Subjects: Midwifery, Obstetrics, history, Midwives, Gynecology, Medicine, great britain, History, Obstetrics, Female Genital Diseases, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, Medicine in Literature, Sages-femmes, Histoire, Obstétrique, Gynécologie, MEDICAL, Gynecology & Obstetrics