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Paperback Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France: Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581-1625) Volume 23 Book

ISBN: 0772721386

ISBN13: 9780772721389

Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France: Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581-1625) Volume 23

(Book #23 in the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series Series)

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 women's health, indicating that early modern physicians and surgeons had a new interest in the specificity of female anatomy and...

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