2491889Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecologyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/midwifery-obstetrics-and-the-rise-of-gynaecology-9781351917681/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2163819/5661e6cc-ce42-4487-944a-ec94ea5995ab.jpg?v=63838359691613000011691169MXNTaylor & FrancisInStock/Ebooks/<p>The Gynaeciorum libri, the Books on [the diseases of] women, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. 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 from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the man-midwife William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the father of medicine, Hippocrates, as the father of midwifery. The close study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueurs model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that womens difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology makes a genuine contribution not only to the history of medicine and its subfield of gynaecology, but also to gender and cultural studies.</p>...2427974Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology11691169https://www.gandhi.com.mx/midwifery-obstetrics-and-the-rise-of-gynaecology-9781351917681/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2163819/5661e6cc-ce42-4487-944a-ec94ea5995ab.jpg?v=638383596916130000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20179781351917681_W3siaWQiOiJmMmE1ZjcyNi03OTllLTQxMjgtOWE5ZC1kYzYwZDRhOTQ4MGYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjEwMzUsImRpc2NvdW50IjowLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEwMzUsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTExLTA3VDA4OjAwOjAwWiIsInRvIjoiMjAyNC0xMS0zMFQyMzo1OTo1OVoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfSx7ImlkIjoiOWFlYzRjZTYtYjJkZS00MzU4LTlmOTAtYjdlYWFkZTEyOTRhIiwibGlzdFByaWNlIjoxMDk5LCJkaXNjb3VudCI6MCwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjoxMDk5LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfV0=9781351917681_<p>The Gynaeciorum libri, the Books on the diseases of women, a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. 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 from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the man-midwife William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the father of medicine, Hippocrates, as the father of midwifery. The close study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueurs model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that womens difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female difference was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology makes a genuine contribution not only to the history of medicine and its subfield of gynaecology, but also to gender and cultural studies.</p>9781351917681_Taylor and Francislibro_electonico_5999a481-f007-37d9-a3c2-6633bbf9b4fb_9781351917681;9781351917681_9781351917681Helen KingInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/taylorandfrancis-epub-0866a012-9f30-4a57-bf7b-3bf38d407ffc.epub2017-03-02T00:00:00+00:00Taylor and Francis