Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery Part II vol 6

Scholars of the British Enlightenment who study obstetrical history traditionally focus on the rise of the male-midwife and competition between the sexes. This set comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives. Acknowledgments, Introduction, Works Cited, Elizabeth Nihell, Editorial Notes