1968 THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)
Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.
GMN 8776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10954
1970 STEWART, Alice Mary (1906 – 2002); KNEALE, George W.
Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.
In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.
GMN 7783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9955
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1973 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.
French translation, 1976.
GMN 6311.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8059
1975 STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806); DOHERTY, Terence
The anatomical works of George Stubbs.
Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).
GMN 6610.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8599
1976 PEEL, Sir John Harold (1904 – 2005)
The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.
GMN 6742.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8106
1977 WERTZ, Richard W. (1933 – ); WERTZ, Dorothy C.
A history of childbirth in America.
Expanded edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
GMN 12484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14717
1977 DONNISON, Jean
Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.
GMN 12554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14792
1978 MOHR, James C.
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
GMN 7999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10175
1980 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
GMN 6311.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8061
1981 ANONYMOUS; ROWLAND, Beryl Winnifred (1918 – 2003)
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.
GMN 6981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9147
1982 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – ); HERRMANN, Walter; WYSS, Rolf; RIONDEL, Anne M.; ET AL
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-…
GMN 12469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14702
1983 BECKMAN, Gary Michael (1948 – )
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…
GMN 10630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12823
1985 CARRICK, Paul (1946 – )
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
GMN 8123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10299
1986 LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )
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…
GMN 8217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10393
1987 DUDEN, Barbara (1942 – )
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…
GMN 8048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10224
1987 ANAND, Aditi; GRAY, Elizabeth S.; BROWN, Thomas
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.)
GMN 11192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13389
1990 ULRICH, Laurel Thatcher (1938 – ); BALLARD, Martha Moore (1735 – 1812)
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.
GMN 7883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10055
1990 BAULIEU, Étienne-Émile (1926 – )
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.
GMN 12468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14701
1991 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); JOHNSON, Timothy Robert B.; WOODRUFF, J. Donald (1912 – 1996)
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.
GMN 10983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13179
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
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…
GMN 7043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9210
1994 O'DOWD, Michael J.; PHILIP, Elliot E.
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 8733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10911
1994 BRODIE, Janet Farrell
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12490
1995 BORST, Charlotte G.
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…
GMN 11023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13219
1995 WILSON, Adrian
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…
GMN 12022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14230
1997 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
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.
GMN 7722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9894
1998 REAGAN, Leslie J.
When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.
GMN 8646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10823
1998 FRASER, Gertrude Jacinta
African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
GMN 12553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14791
1999 BANKS, Amanda Carson (1965 – )
Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.
GMN 11632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13832
2000 HIBBARD, Brian M.
The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.
GMN 6904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9068
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
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 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
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 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 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
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
