Looking for good History of Midwifery references

[fourgrtkidos]

Please post web sites, books, articles...... anything you consider good history of women and midwifery

Thanks,
Michelle

[JunipersMom]

What kind of history are you looking for? I like the bio's of midwives - they give good history of that woman's life as a midwife and midwifery in their time and location: Sisters on a Journey, Baby Catcher, A Midwife's Tale, Listen to me Good, etc...

[Charmie981]

I like Listen to Me Good, Diary of a Midwife, Heart and Hands (the first chapter), and I found an unexpected resource in Foxfire 2, where there is an article entitled "Midwives and Granny Women."

[mwherbs]

"Mother and Child were Saved": The Memoirs (1693-1740) of the Frisian Midwife Catharina Schrader translated by Hilary Marland ( other books by Hilary Marland)
A Midwive's Tale, The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785 - 1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray by Nina Rattner Gelbart
The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Doreen Evenden
Birth in four cultures: a crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States
Jordan, Brigitte
Catching babies: the professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920
Borst, Charlotte G.
Cambridge, MA Harvard Univ. Press
==== note that this one has the same first name as an American book- it is very different book and good read
Midwife's tale: an oral history from handywoman to professional
midwife Leap, Nicky Hunter, Billy London Scarlet Press 1993

got to run there are many more resources as well as things published on the net..

[mendomidwife]

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)...available on Amazon....

I also like A Midwife's Tale, The Life of Martha Ballard....the dvd is wonderful.

Carla

[mwherbs]

a few things more on line--

http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/Childbirth.htm
this link is just about the orlando project....explains about the collections
http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/...BOUTTHEPROJECT

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there are some full text books published on line- one that can be found that was published in 1932- a government report Obstetric Education - Committee on prenatal education and maternal care- there are several sections about midwives- this is in the Cornell collections at Hearth-- if you look at their catalog listing there are many more to be found a this site including published diaries ---
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cg...h;idno=4305359

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one article on line--
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/midwife.HTM

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[jlpetitte]

I just read the book Birth: The surprising history of how we are born and it was awesome! It is so thorough and has some really interesting detailed stories that I can't believe the author found. She is an investigative reporter and I was just completely impressed.

http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Surprisi...9882888&sr=8-1

[suprgrl]

Midwives in History and Society by Jean Towler and Joan Bramall... I found this at the university library in town and it was very very interesting. It begins as far back as history exists and ends in modern times. It was written in 1986.