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551 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615]
2005
#12556
The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.
Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…
2006
#8090
Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
2006
#8366
Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.
"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…
2006
#9934
Nurse-midwifery: The birth of a new American profession.
2007
#8481
Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.
The compendium that King studied is Caspar Wolff's Gynaeciorum (1566, 1586-1588; Nos. 6011 and 6022). She concentrated on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from…
2007
#12159
Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.
2007
#13577
Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…
2008
#7130
Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.
Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.
2008
#9967
The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.
2008
#10635
Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)
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A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.
2008
#12331
On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.
Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2008
#12555
At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.
",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…
2009
#11484
The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.
2009
#12021
Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
2011
#7930
A history of endometriosis.
2011
#8615
Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.
2011
#10545
Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.
2011
#10549
Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…
2011
#11052
A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.
2013
#7501
Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.
2013
#8697
The rise of fetal and neonatal physiology: Basic science to clinical care.
2013
#10774
Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.
Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…
2013
#12023
Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…
2014
#10422
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
2014
#10542
Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
2014
#11513
Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.
2014
#13528
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
2015
#10424
L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).
Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
2015
#12201
An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).
This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in English, and …
2015
#13745
Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.
2015
#14356
Maternal mortality: Risk factors, anthropological perspectives, prevalence in developing countries and preventive strategies for pregnancy-related deaths. Edited by David A. Schwartz.
"Pregnancy is a life-threatening event in many parts of the developing world. Globally, it is estimated that 289,000 women died from being pregnant in 2013. The lifetime risk for dying as a result of pregnancy is as h…
2016
#7861
Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.
2016
#9454
Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.
2016
#9479
Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.
2016
#10419
A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.
2017
#9908
Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.
"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…
2017
#10754
Infertility in early modern England.
2017
#11038
Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.
Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…
2017
#11053
Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.
2017
#12467
Abortion law and policy around the world: In search of decriminalization.
Digital edition available from cdn1.sph.harvard.edu at this link.
2018
#10622
Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.
A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…
2018
#10645
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
2018
#10696
In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.
Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.
2019
#11460
Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caearian-section birth.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Shao, Forster, Tsaliki....The authors used whole genome sequencing to characterize the microbiota of caesarian babies, demonstrating that caesarian babies were not colo…
2020
#11485
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2020
#13512
The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.
"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…
2020
#13518
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2020
#13537
Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.
2021
#14318
Coming home: How midwives changed birth.
2022
#13814
Placental tissue destruction and insufficiency from COVID-19 causes stillbirth and neonatal death from hypoxic-ischemic injury: A study of 68 cases with SARS-CoV-2 placentitis from 12 countries.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Schwartz, Avvad-Portari, Babál, et al.... "Design.—Case-based retrospective clinico-pathological analysis by a multinational group of 44 perinatal specialists from 12 c…