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At birth : the modern state, modern medicine, and the royal midwife Louise Bourgeois in seventeeth-century France
In this article I explore the connections between state cenhalization, the professionalization of healing, and the end of the royal midwife Louise Bourgeois' (1563-1636) illustrious career in seventeenth-century France. Specifically, I analyze seventeenth-century narratives of two events which frame Louise Bourgeois' public career as a writer and royal midwife in order to demonstrate the way that the changing meanings of childbirth and the role of the midwife in the medical hierarchy were bound up in state formation and consolidation. The result for midwives was that, though they could still practice, they were ultimately considered marginal to the medical community
At Birth: The Modern State, Modern Medicine, and the Royal Midwife Louise Bourgeois in Seventeenth-Century France
In this article I explore the connections between state cenhalization, the professionalization
of healing, and the end of the royal midwife Louise Bourgeois' (1563-1636) illustnous
career in seventeenth-century France. Specifically, 1 analyze seventeenth-century narratives
of two events which frame Louise Bourgeois' public career as a writer and royal midwife
in order to demonstrate the way that the changing meanings of childbirth and the role
of the midwife in the medical hierarchy were bound up in state formation and consolidation.
The result for midwives was that, though they could still practice, they were ultimately
considered marginal to the medical community
Strangers in a Strange Land: a Literature Review of Women in Science. CGIAR Gender Program working paper no. 17.
Are Women as Smart as Men? Midwives and Medical Men in Seventeenth-Century France
Presentation given at the Haunting Histories of the Female Body Symposium held on November 17, 2006 in the Ferst Room, Georgia Tech Library. This session was part of Panel I: Early Modern Reproduction: the Politics of the Productive Female BodyRuntime: 35:05 minute
At birth : the modern state, modern medicine, and the royal midwife Louise Bourgeois in seventeeth-century France
In this article I explore the connections between state cenhalization, the professionalization of healing, and the end of the royal midwife Louise Bourgeois' (1563-1636) illustrious career in seventeenth-century France. Specifically, I analyze seventeenth-century narratives of two events which frame Louise Bourgeois' public career as a writer and royal midwife in order to demonstrate the way that the changing meanings of childbirth and the role of the midwife in the medical hierarchy were bound up in state formation and consolidation. The result for midwives was that, though they could still practice, they were ultimately considered marginal to the medical community