2000 STOL, Marten (1940 – ); WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )
Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.
GMN 8314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10490
2000 GREEN, Monica Helen
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…
GMN 11893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14098
2000 STOL, Marten (1940 – ); WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )
Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
GMN 12142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14351
2001 –2013 DHOM, Georg (1922 – 2014)
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.
GMN 8477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10654
2001 MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – ); TROTA OF SALERNO, (Trotula) (1150 – ); BARRATT, Alexandra A. T.
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…
GMN 12953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15200
2002 GREEN, Monica Helen; TROTA OF SALERNO, (Trotula) (1150 – )
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…
GMN 8577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10754
2004 PERKINS, Barbara Bridgman
The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.
GMN 10553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12746
2005 SMITH, Susan L.
Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.
GMN 10535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12728
2005 FREDRICS, David N.; FIEDLER, Tina N.; MARRAZZO, Jeanne M.
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 …
GMN 11396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13595
2005 BLAZER, Shraga; ZIMMER, Etan Z.
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…
GMN 12556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14795
2006 SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
GMN 8090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10266
2006 GREEN, Monica Helen; GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); MOONEY, Linne R. (1949 – ); TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
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…
GMN 8366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10542
2006 ETTINGER, Laura E.
Nurse-midwifery: The birth of a new American profession.
GMN 9934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12122
2007 WOLFF, Caspar [WOLF] (1525 – 1601); KING, Helen (1957 – )
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…
GMN 8481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10658
2007 FISSELL, Mary E.
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…
GMN 13577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15855
2008 GREEN, Monica Helen
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.
GMN 7130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9297
2008 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); BOURBON, Florence
Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)
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.
GMN 10635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12828
2008 BASKETT, Thomas F. (1941 – )
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.
GMN 12331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14555
2008 MACDONALD, Margaret
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…
GMN 12555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14793
2009 FREIDENFELDS, Lara
The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.
GMN 11484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13683
2009 WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011)
Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
GMN 12021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14229
2011 BATT, Ronald Elmer (1933 – 2017)
A history of endometriosis.
GMN 7930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10103
2011 JOHNSON, Tina Phillips
Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.
GMN 8615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10792
2011 FOXCROFT, Louise
Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.
GMN 10545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12738
2011 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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…
GMN 10549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12742
2011 LÖWY, Ilana (1948 – )
A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.
GMN 11052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13248
2013 NICHOLSON, Malcolm; FLEMING, John Eric Edgcumbe (1934 – )
Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.
GMN 7501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9673
2013 LONGO, Lawrence D. (1926 – 2016)
The rise of fetal and neonatal physiology: Basic science to clinical care.
GMN 8697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10874
2013 WILSON, Adrian
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…
GMN 12023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14231
2014 EVANS, Jennifer
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…
GMN 10422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12615
2014 RODRIGUEZ, Sarah B.
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…
GMN 10542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12735
2014 SWANSON, Kara W.
Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.
GMN 11513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13712
2014 GILADI, Avner
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
GMN 13528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15805
2015 ARNAUD, Sabine
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).
GMN 10424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12617
2015 MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – ); BOLTON, Lesley Annette
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 …
GMN 12201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14411
2015 WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011); GALLEY, Chris
Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.
GMN 13745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16029
2015 SCHWARTZ, David Alan (1953 – )
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…
GMN 14356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16686
2016 LONGO, Lawrence D. (1926 – 2016); REYNOLDS, Lawrence P.
Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.
GMN 7861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10033
2016 READ, Kirk D.
Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.
GMN 9454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11637
2016 NGUYEN, Thuy L.
Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.
GMN 9479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11663
2016 BURST, Helen Varney; THOMPSON, Joyce E.
A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.
GMN 10419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12612
2017 OWENS, Deirdre Cooper
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…
GMN 9908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12096
2017 OREN-MAGIDOR, Daphna
Infertility in early modern England.
GMN 10754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12950
2017 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); BOURBON, Florence
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…
GMN 11038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13234
2017 LÖWY, Ilana (1948 – )
Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.
GMN 11053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13249
2017 BERER, Marge
Abortion law and policy around the world: In search of decriminalization.
Digital edition available from cdn1.sph.harvard.edu at this link.
GMN 12467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14700
2018 WOLF, Jacqueline H.
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…
GMN 10622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12815
2018 TERAZAWA, Yuki
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
GMN 10645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12838
2018 KOVACS, Gabor T. (1947 – ); BRINSDEN, Peter Robert (1940 – ); DECHERNEY, Alan Hersh
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.
GMN 10696 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12889
2019 SHAO, Yan; FORSTER, Samuel C.; TSALIKI, Evdokia; ET AL
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…
GMN 11460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13659
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