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man-midwife Sep 28th 2011, 14:18 English: +citations ← Older revision Revision as of 14:18, 28 September 2011 Line 5: Line 5: # An [[accoucheur]]. # An [[accoucheur]].   + #* '''1775''', [[w:Laurence Sterne|Laurence Sterne]], ''The Koran'', Chapter XXXVII: The '''Man-Midwife''', ''The Works of Laurence Sterne'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=CAoUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75&dq=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&hl=en&ei=ESSDTpuxB83xmAXPxdA7&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&f=false page 75],   + #*: She was daughter to a '''man-midwife'''; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also.   + #* '''1835''' May 30, ''Evidence of Mr, Guthrie before the Parliamentary Medical Committee'', ''[[w:The Lancet|The Lancet]] for 1834-35'', Volume 2, [http://books.google.com/books?id=pz9PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA287&dq=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&hl=en&ei=tyaDToLbK6HNmAWIz_wa&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&f=false page 287],   + #*: It is the same with the '''man-midwife''' ; he has no ''time'' to devote to surgery ; if he ''has time'', he has ''no means'' of improving his knowledge in it.   + #* '''2010''', Mary Lindemann, ''Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=K3fv-0iophEC&pg=PA268&dq=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&hl=en&ei=tyaDToLbK6HNmAWIz_wa&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&f=false page 268],   + #*: Thus, the answer to the old question of whether '''man-midwives''' or midwives were the better birth attendants is not simple. Some midwives were indeed dirty, ignorant, and dangerous; some '''man-midwives''' saved lives with their forceps; and some births were doomed to disaster. ====Derived terms==== ====Derived terms==== - *[[man-midwivery]] + * [[man-midwifery]]

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