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Midwives, society, and childbirth

The midwife as health missionary : the reform of Dutch childbirth practices in the early twentieth century / Hilary Marland.

Swedish midwives and their instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Christina Romlid.

Rosalind Paget : the midwife, the women's movement and reform before 1914 / June Hannan.

Midwives among the machines : re-creating midwifery in the late twentieth century / Raymond G. DeVries and Rebeca Barroso.

The 'antiseptic' transformation of Danish midwives, 1860-1920 / Anne Løkke.

State control in local context : public health and midwife regulation in Manchester, 1900-1914 / Joan Mottram.

Midwifery and medicine : gendered knowledge in the practice of delivery / Susan Pitt.

Establishing the scope of practice : organizing European midwifery in the interwar years 1919-1938 / Anne Thompson.

The controlling power of childbirth in Britain / Jan Williams.

Midwives and the quality of maternal care / Irvine Loudon.

The end of home births in the German language islands of northern Italy / Christoph Brezinka.

How to be a midwife in late nineteenth-century Spain / Teresa Ortiz and Clara Martínez Padilla.

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The midwife as health missionary : the reform of Dutch childbirth practices in the early twentieth century / Hilary Marland.

Swedish midwives and their instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Christina Romlid.

Rosalind Paget : the midwife, the women's movement and reform before 1914 / June Hannan.

Midwives among the machines : re-creating midwifery in the late twentieth century / Raymond G. DeVries and Rebeca Barroso.

The 'antiseptic' transformation of Danish midwives, 1860-1920 / Anne Løkke.

State control in local context : public health and midwife regulation in Manchester, 1900-1914 / Joan Mottram.

Midwifery and medicine : gendered knowledge in the practice of delivery / Susan Pitt.

Establishing the scope of practice : organizing European midwifery in the interwar years 1919-1938 / Anne Thompson.

The controlling power of childbirth in Britain / Jan Williams.

Midwives and the quality of maternal care / Irvine Loudon.

The end of home births in the German language islands of northern Italy / Christoph Brezinka.

How to be a midwife in late nineteenth-century Spain / Teresa Ortiz and Clara Martínez Padilla.

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The midwife as health missionary : the reform of Dutch childbirth practices in the early twentieth century / Hilary Marland.

Swedish midwives and their instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Christina Romlid.

Rosalind Paget : the midwife, the women's movement and reform before 1914 / June Hannan.

Midwives among the machines : re-creating midwifery in the late twentieth century / Raymond G. DeVries and Rebeca Barroso.

The 'antiseptic' transformation of Danish midwives, 1860-1920 / Anne Løkke.

State control in local context : public health and midwife regulation in Manchester, 1900-1914 / Joan Mottram.

Midwifery and medicine : gendered knowledge in the practice of delivery / Susan Pitt.

Establishing the scope of practice : organizing European midwifery in the interwar years 1919-1938 / Anne Thompson.

The controlling power of childbirth in Britain / Jan Williams.

Midwives and the quality of maternal care / Irvine Loudon.

The end of home births in the German language islands of northern Italy / Christoph Brezinka.

How to be a midwife in late nineteenth-century Spain / Teresa Ortiz and Clara Martínez Padilla.

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