The context of care for pregnant women -- Antenatal care -- Medical problems during pregnancy -- Disorders affecting the unborn baby -- Pregnancy complications -- Induction of labour -- Care during childbirth -- Care after childbirth -- Rogues' gallery.
"This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant manuscripts of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims t…
"This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant manuscripts of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims t…
"The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the Federalists," he writes, "the…
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized…
Proefschrift culturele antropologie, Derde Wereld Centrum, KUN. Studie naar de sociaal-culturele achtergrond van bepaalde reproductieve gedragsvormen en het geboorteproces bij de Andes-bevolking in Peru. De nadruk ligt op de culturele identiteit en kennis van de betrokken groepe…
