ID: GLSHW-4.3.4 Midwifery (1459-1548) GENERAL 1459 Asgood, K., Hochstrasser, D.L., and Deuschle, K.W. "Lay Midwifery in Southern Appalachia." ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 12 (1966): 759-770. 1460 Benedek, Thomas G. "The Changing Relationship between Midwives and Physicians during the Renaissance." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 51, no.4 (Winter 1977): 550-564. 1461 Biggs, C. Lesley. "The Case of the Missing Midwives: A History of Midwifery in Ontario from 1795-1900." ONTARIO HISTORY 75 (March 1983): 21-35. Reprinted in DELIVERING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, ed. by Katherine Arnup, Andree Levesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson (New York: Routledge, 1990): pp.20-35. 1462 Boehme, Gernot. "Midwifery as Science: An Essay on the Relation Between Scientific and Everyday Knowledge." In SOCIETY AND KNOWLEDGE: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE, ed. by Nico Stehr and Volker Meja, pp.365-385. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1984. 1463 Borst, Charlotte G. "The Training and Practice of Midwives: A Wisconsin Study." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 62, no.4 (1988): 606-627. 1464 Borst, Charlotte G. "Wisconsin's Midwives as Working Women: Immigrant Midwives and the Limits of a Traditional Occupation, 1870-1920." JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY 8 (Spring 1989): 24-59. 1465 Brack, Datha Clapper. "Displaced: The Midwife by the Male Physician." WOMEN AND HEALTH 1, no.6 (November/December 1976): 18-24. Repr. in BIOLOGICAL WOMAN - THE CONVENIENT MYTH, pp.207-226. Ed. by Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, and Barbara Fried. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1982. 1466 Breckinridge, Mary. "An Adventure in Midwifery: The Nurse-on- Horseback Gets a `Soon Start' ... First Days of the Frontier Nursing Service ... 1926." FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE QUARTERLY BULLETIN 60, no.3 (Winter 1985): 18-25. 1467 Breckinridge, Mary, and Ireland, B. "The Birth of the Frontier Nursing Service -- The First Words, The First Steps." FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE QUARTERLY BULLETIN 62, no.1 (Summer 1986): 3-11. 1468 Breckinridge, Mary. WIDE NEIGHBORHOODS: A STORY OF FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE. New York: Harper, 1952. Repr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. 1469 Brickman, Jane Pacht. "Public Health, Midwives, and Nurses, 1880-1930." In NURSING HISTORY: NEW PERSPECTIVES, NEW POSSIBILITIES, ed. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. New York: Teachers College Press, 1983. 1470 Campbell, Marie. FOLKS DO GET BORN. New York: Rinehart, 1946; repr. New York: Garland, 1985. Examines practices of black midwives in Georgia. 1471 Cass, Victoria B. "Female Healers in the Ming and the Lodge of Ritual and Ceremony." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY 106 (January/March 1986): 233-240. Midwives, wet nurses and healers during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) in China. 1472 Chamberlain, Mary. OLD WIVES' TALES: THEIR HISTORY, REMEDIES, AND SPELLS. London: Virago, 1981. 1473 Cutter, Irving S., and Viets, Henry R. A SHORT HISTORY OF MIDWIFERY. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1964. 1474 DeClercq, Eugene R., and Lacroix, Richard. "The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict Between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 59, no.2 (Summer 1985): 232-246. 1475 DeClercq, Eugene R., and Lacroix, Richard. "The Nature and Style of Practice of Immigrant Midwives in Early Twentieth Century Massachusetts." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 19 (Fall 1985): 113-130. 1476 DeClercq, Eugene R. "The Transformation of American Midwifery: 1975-1988." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 92, no.5 (1992): 690-694. 1477 Devitt, Neal. "The Statistical Case for the Elimination of the Midwife: Fact versus Prejudice, 1890-1935, Part I." WOMEN AND HEALTH 4, no.1 (Spring 1979): 81-96; Part II: 4, no.2 (Summer 1979): 169-186. 1478 DeVries, Raymond G. "Midwifery and the Problem of Licensure." RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH CARE 2 (1982): 77-120. 1479 DeVries, Raymond G. REGULATING BIRTH: MIDWIVES, MEDICINE AND THE LAW. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1985. 1480 Donegan, Jane B. "`Safe Delivered,' but by Whom? Midwives and Men- midwives in Early America." In WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt, pp.302-317. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1481 Donegan, Jane B. WOMEN AND MEN MIDWIVES: MEDICINE, MORALITY, AND MISOGYNY IN EARLY AMERICA. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1978. 1482 Donnison, Jean. "Medical Women and Lady Midwives: A Case Study in Medical and Feminist Politics." WOMEN'S STUDIES 3, no.3 (1976): 229-250. 1483 Donnison, Jean. MIDWIVES AND MEDICAL MEN: A HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CONTROL OF CHILDBIRTH. New Barnet, Herts [England]: Historical Publications, 1988. A history of midwifery and obstetrics in England, 1st ed. issued under the title: MIDWIVES AND MEDICAL MEN: A HISTORY OF INTERPROFESSIONAL RIVALRIES AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS. New York: Schoken, 1977. 1484 Dougherty, Molly C. "Southern Lay Midwives as Ritual Specialists." New York: Plenum, 1978. WOMEN IN RITUAL AND SYMBOLIC ROLES, ed. by Judith Hoch- Smith and Anita Spring, pp.151-164. 1485 Dougherty, Molly C. "Southern Midwifery and Organized Health Care: Systems in Conflict." MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 6 (1982): 113-126. 1486 Ehrenreich, Barbara, and English, Deirdre. WITCHES, MIDWIVES, AND NURSES: A HISTORY OF WOMEN HEALERS. New York: Feminist Press, 1973. 1487 Ferguson, James H. "Mississippi Midwives." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 5 (1950): 85-95. Provides accounts of black midwives and includes transcripts of their songs. 1488 Forbes, Thomas R. THE MIDWIFE AND THE WITCH. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. 1489 Forbes, Thomas R. "Midwifery and Witchcraft." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 17 (1962): 264-283. 1490 Gardiner, Anne Barbeau. "Elizabeth Cellier in 1688 on Envious Doctors and Heroic Midwives Ancient and Modern." EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LIFE 14, no.1 (1990): 24-34. 1491 Greilsammer, Myriam. "The Midwife, the Priest, and the Physician: The Subjugation of Midwives in the Low Countries at the End of the Middle Ages." JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES 22, no.2 (Fall 1991): 285-329. Includes midwives' oaths and other primary documents. 1492 Harley, David. "Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife- witch." SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 3, no.1 (April 1990): 1-26. Shows how historians have been misled by taking literally the rhetoric of the witch- hunters who wrote THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (MALLEUS MALEFICARUM). 1493 Holmes, Linda Janet. "African American Midwives in the South." In THE AMERICAN WAY OF BIRTH, ed. Pamela Eakins, pp.273-291. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. 1494 Joint Study Group of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, and International Confederation of Midwives. MATERNITY CARE IN THE WORLD: INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF MIDWIFERY PRACTICE AND TRAINING. Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1966. 1495 Jordan, Brigitte. BIRTH IN FOUR CULTURES. Montreal: Eden Press, 1978. Covers the American hospital, Dutch and Swedish midwifery, Mayan midwifery, and home births in Mexico. 1496 Kloberdanz, Timothy J. "The Daughters of Shiphrah: Folk Healers and Midwives of the Great Plains." GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 9 (Winter 1989): 3-12. 1497 Kobrin, Frances E. "The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 40 (July/Aug 1966): 350-363. Repr. in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, pp.318-326. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Also repr. in SICKNESS AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, pp.197-205. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers. 2nd ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. 1498 Ladd-Taylor, Molly. "Grannies and Spinsters: Midwife Education under the Sheppard-Towner Act." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 22 (Winter 1988): 255-275. 1499 Laderman, Carol C. WIVES AND MIDWIVES: CHILDBIRTH AND NUTRITION IN RURAL MALAYSIA. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Ethnographic and ecological perspectives; blood and dietary analyses; how ecology and beliefs affect childbirth. 1500 Laforce, Helene. "The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Quebec." In DELIVERING MOTHERHOOD: MATERNAL IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, ed. by Katherine Arnup, Andree Levesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson, pp.36-50. New York: Routledge, 1990. 1501 Leap, Nicky, and Hunter, Billie. THE MIDWIFE'S TALE. London: Scarlet Press, 1993. 1502 Lieburg, M.J. van, and Morland, H. "Midwife Regulation, Education and Practice in the Netherlands During the Nineteenth Century." MEDICAL HISTORY 33 (1989): 296-317. 1503 Litoff, Judy Barrett. THE AMERICAN MIDWIFE DEBATE: A SOURCEBOOK ON ITS MODERN ORIGINS. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 1504 Litoff, Judy Barrett. AMERICAN MIDWIVES, 1860 TO THE PRESENT. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1978. 1505 Litoff, Judy Barrett. "The Midwife Throughout History." JOURNAL OF NURSE-MIDWIFERY 27, no.6 (November 1982): 3-11. 1506 Litoff, Judy Barrett. "Midwives and History." In WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK, ed. by Rima D. Apple, pp.443-458. New York: Garland, 1990. 1507 Malin, Maili, and Hemminki, Elina. "Midwives as Providers of Prenatal Care in Finland -- Past and Present." WOMEN & HEALTH 18, no.4 (1992): 17-34. 1508 Marshall, R.K. "17th Century Midwifery: The Treatment of Miscarriage." NURSING MIRROR 155, no.24 (December 15, 1982): 31-36. 1509 McCool, W.F., and McCool, S.J. "Feminism and Nurse-Midwifery: Historical Overview and Current Issues." JOURNAL OF NURSE-MIDWIFERY 34, no.6 (November 1989): 323-334. 1510 Mongeau, Beatrice, Smith, Harvey L., and Maney, Ann C. "The Granny Midwife: Changing Roles and Functions of a Folk Practitioner." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 66 (March 1961): 497-505. 1511 Oakley, Ann, and Houd, Susanne. HELPERS IN CHILDBIRTH: MIDWIFERY TODAY. New York: Hemisphere, 1990. Historical as well as descriptive. 1512 Perkins, Wendy. "Midwives Versus Doctors: The Case of Louise Bourgeois." SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 3, no.2 (1988): 135-157. 1513 Perry, D.S. "The Early Midwives of Missouri." JOURNAL OF NURSE- MIDWIFERY 28, no.6 (November 1983): 15-22. 1514 Peters, Edward. THE MAGICIAN, THE WITCH, AND THE LAW. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. 1515 Peterson, Karen J. "Technology as a Last Resort: The Work of Lay Midwives." SOCIAL PROBLEMS 30 (1983): 284-297. 1516 Reed, Louis S. MIDWIVES, CHIROPODISTS, AND OPTOMETRISTS: THEIR PLACE IN MEDICAL CARE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932. 1517 Robinson, Sharon A. "A Historical Development of Midwifery in the Black Community: 1600-1940." JOURNAL OF NURSE-MIDWIFERY 29 (1984): 247-250. 1518 Rothman, Barbara Katz. "Midwives in Transition: The Structure of a Clinical Revolution." SOCIAL PROBLEMS 30 (1983): 262-71. 1519 "Royal College of Midwives Library: A Select Reading List. A History of Midwifery and the RCM." MIDWIVES CHRONICLE 98, 1169 RCM Suppl. (June 1985): vii-viii. 1520 Sablosky, Ann H. "The Power of the Forceps: A Comparative Analysis of the Midwife -- Historically and Today." WOMEN AND HEALTH 1, no.1 (January/February 1976): 10-13. 1521 Schaffer, Ruth C. "The Health and Social Functions of Black Midwives on the Texas Brazos Bottom, 1920-1985." RURAL SOCIOLOGY 56 (Spring 1991): 89-105. 1522 Schnorrenberg, Barbara Brandon. "Is Childbirth Any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth Century England." STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CULTURE 10 (1981): 393-408. 1523 Scholten, Catherine M. "`On the Importance of the Obstetric Art': Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760-1825." WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY 34 (1977): 426-445. Repr. in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, pp.142-154. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1524 Scholten, Catherine M. CHILDBEARING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1650-1850. New York: New York University Press, 1985. 1525 Shoemaker, M. Theopane. HISTORY OF NURSE-MIDWIFERY IN THE UNITED STATES. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1947. Repr. New York: Garland, 1984. 1526 Smith, Susan L. "White Nurses, Black Midwives, and Public Health in Mississippi, 1920-1950." NURSING HISTORY REVIEW 2 (1994): forthcoming. 1527 Sullivan, Deborah A., and Weitz, Rose. LABOR PAINS: MODERN MIDWIVES AND HOME BIRTH. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988. 1528 Susie, Debra A. IN THE WAY OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS: A CULTURAL VIEW OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MIDWIFERY IN FLORIDA. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988. Study of Black lay midwives. 1529 Towler, Jean, and Bramall, Joan. MIDWIVES IN HISTORY AND SOCIETY. London; Dover, NH: Croom Helm, 1986. 1530 Ulrich, Laurel T. "`The Living Mother of a Living Child': Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England." WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY 66 (January 1989): 27-48. 1531 Waller, M.V., and Hong, O.S. "Midwifery Status and Education in Korea: Historical and Governmental Influences." JOURNAL OF NURSE-MIDWIFERY 29, no.5 (September 1984): 333-337. 1532 Wiesner, Merry E. "Early Modern Midwifery: A Case Study." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 6 (January/February 1983): 26-43. 1533 Williams, J. Whitridge. "Medical Education and the Midwife Problem in the United States." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 58, no.1 (January 6, 1912): 1-7. BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES OF INDIVIDUALS 1534 Armstrong, Penny, and Feldman, Sheryl. A MIDWIFE'S STORY. New York: Ivy Books, 1988. Recollections of a midwife in Amish country. 1535 Bell, Pegge L. "`Making Do' with the Midwife: Arkansas's Mamie O. Hale in the 1940s." NURSING HISTORY REVIEW 1 (1993): 155-170. 1536 Benjamin, Louvenia Taylor, and Holmes, Linda Janet, interviewer. "Louvenia Taylor Benjamin, Southern Lay Midwife: An Interview." SAGE: A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ON BLACK WOMEN 2, no.2 (1985): 51-54. 1537 Brooks, Juanita. "Mariah Huntsman Leavitt: Midwife of the Desert Frontier." In FORMS UPON THE FRONTIER, ed. Austin Fife, Alta Fife, and Henry H. Glassie, pp.119-131. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1989. 1538 Buss, Fran Leeper. LA PARTERA: STORY OF A MIDWIFE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980. Biography of Jesusita Aragon, who became a midwife at fourteen, a community leader, and the only source of medical care in a remote area of New Mexico. 1539 Dye, Nancy Schrom. "Mary Breckinridge, the Frontier Nursing Service and the Introduction of Nurse-Midwifery in the United States." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 57, no.4 (Winter 1983): 485-507. Repr. in WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL READINGS, pp.327-343. Ed. by Judith Walzer Leavitt. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1540 Fuhrer, Charlotte. THE MYSTERIES OF MONTREAL: MEMOIRS OF A MIDWIFE. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. Originally published in 1881. 1541 Goldman, Emma. LIVING MY LIFE. New York: Knopf, 1931. Best known as an anarchist, Goldman worked as a midwife among the poor in New York City. Repr. New York: Da Capo, 1976 and Irving, CA: Reprint Services, 1991. 2 vol. 1542 Hales, David A. "`There Goes Mathilda': Millard County Midwife and Nurse." UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 55 (Summer 1987): 278-293. 1543 Kennedy, Joan E. "Jane Soley Hamilton, Midwife." NOVA SCOTIA HISTORICAL REVIEW 2 (1982): 6-29. 1544 Kursch, Daisy Estes. "Beulah Brinton of Bay View." MILWAUKEE HISTORY 10, no.2 (1987): 38-46. Wisconsin social activist and midwife. 1545 Logan, Onnie Lee as told to Katherine Clark. MOTHER WIT: AN ALABAMA MIDWIFE'S STORY. New York: Dutton, 1989. Autobiography of a Black "granny" midwife, who delivered babies from 1925 to 1984. 1546 Paradis, Roger. "Henriette, La Capuche: The Portrait of a Frontier Midwife." CANADIAN FOLKLORE 3, no.2 (1981): 10-26. 1547 Ulrich, Laurel T. A MIDWIFE'S TALE: THE LIFE OF MARTHA BALLARD, BASED ON HER OWN RECORD OF HER WORK IN HALLOWELL AND AUGUSTA, MAINE, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, distr. Random House, 1990. 1548 Whitehouse, Eula. "Sophia Hamman, an Early Texas Midwife and Herbalist." FIELD LABORATORY 13 (1945): 70-72.
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