Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France - Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581-1625)Author :
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Published : Monday 1 July 2013
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These texts were written in the vernacular for a readership of physicians and surgeons but also of midwives and lay women. So they present important evidence that, contrary to stereotypes, women were the recipients of medical texts written specifically for them. More generally, these texts demonstrate a strong interest in womens health, indicating that early modern physicians and surgeons had a new interest in the specificity of female anatomy and womens diseases. The texts selected and translated in this volume allow the reader to access an important group of primary sources on issues related to womens health, including childbirth and caesarean section, sterility, miscarriage, breastfeeding, etc. The selection of texts is well organized and coherent, the translation is accurate and fluent, and the texts are adequately annotated, so the book will be easily used by scholars and students, including undergraduates. It provides evidence of a new concern and attention for womens health needs, which, most interestingly, often went hand-in-hand with the rejection of misogynist stereotypes and the challenging of conventional views of female subordination and inferiority. -Gianna PomataProfessor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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