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551 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615]
1978
#7115
Contraceptive technology.
Standard work on the subject; 20th edition, New York: Arden Media, 2011. Hatcher originated the work in 1978. Collaborators on the 20th edition are Hatcher, Kowal, Nelson, Policar, and Trusell. An offshoot of the main…
1978
#7999
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
1978
#13757
The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.
A history of contraception in the United States.
1980
#6311.7
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
1981
#6981
Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.
This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.
1982
#12469
Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.
"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…
1983
#9095
Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.
1983
#10630
Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.
"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…
1985
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
1986
#8217
Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.
Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…
1986
#8368
Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.
1986
#13786
Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.
1987
#8048
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
1987
#11192
Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.
Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1989
#7044
"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.
1990
#7533
A history of contraception from antiquity to the present day.
1990
#7883
A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
1990
#10173
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
1990
#12468
Génération pilule.
Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
1990
#13391
The condom industry in the United States.
1991
#10983
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.
1991
#11221
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
1991
#12202
Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.
Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…
1992
#7043
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
1994
#7187
Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.
1994
#8733
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
1994
#10299
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
1995
#11023
Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.
Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…
1995
#12022
The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…
1996
#11898
Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.
1997
#7722
Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.
A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.
1998
#8350
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
1998
#8646
When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.
1998
#11895
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…
1998
#12553
African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
1999
#11632
Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.
2000
#6904
The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.
2000
#8314
Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.
2000
#9094
The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.
Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.
2000
#11893
Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.
The Appendix is Medieval gynecological texts: A handlist. This is "a list of all gynecological texts currently known to me from western Europe written between the 4th and 15th centuries. It includes gynecological exce…
2000
#12142
Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
2001 –2013
#8477
Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.
Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2001
#12953
The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.
The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…
2001
#13389
Devices and desires: A history of contraceptives in America.
2002
#8577
The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.
A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…
2002
#11032
Abortion in the ancient world.
2003
#7721
Lust ohne Last: Geschichte der Empfängnisverhütung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.
Translated into English as Contraception: A History (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008).
2004
#10553
The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.
2005
#10535
Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.
2005
#11396
Molecular identification of bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fredricks, Fiedler, Marrazzo. Using molecular methods, the authors confirmed that absence or greatly reduced number of Lactobacilli was associated with vaginosis. They …