{"product_id":"pregnancy-and-birth-in-early-modern-france-treatises-by-caring-physicians-and-surgeons-15811625-volume-23-other-voice-in-early-modern-europe-the-toronto-9780772721389","title":"Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These texts were written in the vernacular for a readership of physicians and surgeons but also of midwives and lay women. So they present important evidence that, contrary to stereotypes, women were the recipients of medical texts written specifically for them. More generally, these texts demonstrate a strong interest in women’s health, indicating that early modern physicians and surgeons had a new interest in the specificity of female anatomy and women's diseases. The texts selected and translated in this volume allow the reader to access an important group of primary sources on issues related to women’s health, including childbirth and caesarean section,  sterility, miscarriage, breastfeeding, etc. The selection of texts is well organized and coherent, the translation is accurate and fluent, and the texts are adequately annotated, so the book will be easily used by scholars and students, including undergraduates. It provides evidence of a new concern and attention for women’s health needs, which, most interestingly, often went hand-in-hand with the rejection of misogynist stereotypes and the challenging of conventional views of female subordination and inferiority.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Gianna Pomata, Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003eConventions xiii\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction xvi\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Rousset\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 3\u003cbr\u003eNew Treatise on Hysterotomotoky, or Childbirth by Cesarean (1581) 16\u003cbr\u003eJean Liebault\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 65\u003cbr\u003eThree Books dealing with the Infirmities and Illnesses of Women (1582) 75\u003cbr\u003eJacques Guillemeau\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 141\u003cbr\u003eOn the Safe Delivery of Women (1609) 154\u003cbr\u003eJacques Duval\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 223\u003cbr\u003eOn Hermaphrodites, Deliveries of Women (1612) 237\u003cbr\u003eLouis de Serres\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 295\u003cbr\u003eTreatise on Sterility among Women (1625) 303\u003cbr\u003eGlossaries 349\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 373\u003cbr\u003eIndex 386","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865867923799,"sku":"9780772721389","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pregnancy-and-birth-in-early-modern-france-treatises-by-caring-physicians-and-surgeons-15811625-volume-23-other-voice-in-early-modern-europe-the-toronto-9780772721389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}