1791 MOHRENHEIM, Joseph Jacob von (1759 – 1797)
Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.
This work was edited by order of Catherine II of Russia, to whom von Mohrenheim was accoucheur. Its importance lies mainly in its splendid engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie (see No. 6154.1). It include…
GMN 6161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7744
1872 AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
English midwives.
Reprinted with biographical sketch by J. L. Thornton, London, 1967.
GMN 6282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8007
1882 ENGELMANN, George Julius (1847 – 1903)
Labor among primitive peoples.
Third edition, revised, 1884.
GMN 6284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8011
1882 AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.
GMN 6283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8964
1887 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les accouchements à la cour.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8013
1887 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.
182-page appendix: "L'arsenal obstétrical", containing numerous illustrations of instruments, at end. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8015
1894 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13317
1897 FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)
Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14408
1901 –1902 SIEBOLD, Eduard Caspar Jacob von (1801 – 1861)
Versuch einer Geschichte der Geburtshilfe. 2te. Aufl. 2 vols.
First edition, 1839-45. Continuation by R. Dohm, for the period 1840-80, forming Bd. 3 (see No. 6289).
GMN 6288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8019
1903 –1904 DOHRN, Rudolf (1836 – 1915)
Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit. 2 pts.
A supplement to No. 6288.
GMN 6289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8021
1903 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860.
First published in Dohrn's Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit, zugleich als dritter Band des Versuchs einer Geschichte der Geburtshülfe, von Eduard von Siebold, Erste Abtheilung (Tübingen, 1903) 193-264. Digital …
GMN 10633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12826
1903 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les seins dans l'histoire.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13315
1904 MÜLLERHEIM, Robert Nathan (1862 – )
Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.
GMN 6290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8022
1906 FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)
Geschichte der Geburtshüfe.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8025
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.
GMN 12744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14990
1917 LA TORRE, Felice (1846 – 1923)
L’utero attraverso i secoli da Erofilo al giorni nostri; storia, iconografia, struttura, fisiologia.
Contains an important collection of illustrations.
GMN 6295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8028
1925 FEHLER, Hermann Johann Karl (1847 – 1925)
Entwicklund der Gerurtshilfe und Gynäkologie im 19. Jahrhundert.
GMN 6297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8033
1927 SONDEREGGER, Albert
Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.
GMN 6298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8036
1927 SPENCER, Herbert Ritchie (1860 – 1941)
History of British midwifery from 1650-1800.
GMN 6299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8038
1929 DAS, Sir Kedarnath (1867 – 1936)
Obstetric forceps, its history and evolution.
GMN 6299.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8040
1933 VLANA, Odorico (1877 – 1942); VOZZA, Francesco
L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.
GMN 6300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8042
1935 THOMS, Herbert (1885 – 1972)
Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 6301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8044
1937 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde. 1 Teil. Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt.
Forms Bd. 12, Teil 1, of Handbuch der Gynäkologie, hrsg. J. Veit u. Stoeckel. See also No. 6311.4
GMN 6303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8046
1938 MØLLER-CHRISTENSEN, Vilhelm (1903 – 1988)
The history of the forceps: An investigation on the occurrence, evolution, and use of the forceps from prehistoric times to the present (with a summary in Danish). Translated by William Ernest Calvert.
Not limited to the obstetric forceps.
GMN 2682.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3602
1939 CLAYE, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 – 1977)
The evolution of obstetric analgesia.
GMN 6304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8047
1944 YOUNG, John Harley
Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.
GMN 6307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8051
1947 RADCLIFFE, Walter
The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.
Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
GMN 6311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8054
1954 KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960); ET AL
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
GMN 6311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8055
1958 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.
79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.
GMN 6311.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8056
1963 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.
A continuation of No. 6303.
GMN 6311.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8057
1964 CUTTER, Irving Samuel (1875 – 1945); VIETS, Henry Rouse (1890 – 1969)
A short history of midwifery.
Supplemented reprint of Cutter's "Historical sketch of the development of midwifery and gynecology," Obstetrics and Gynecology, edited by Arthur H. Curtis, I, 4-194 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1933).
GMN 9535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11721
1967 RADCLIFFE, Walter
Milestones in midwifery.
Reprinted with No. 6311, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
GMN 6311.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8058
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
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
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
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
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
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
1994 O'DOWD, Michael J.; PHILIP, Elliot E.
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 8733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10911
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
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
