The Midwives Book Paperback
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Jane Sharp
Book Description
When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising.
ISBN-10
0195086538
ISBN-13
9780195086539
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
19-Aug-1999
Number of Pages
368
About the Author
Elaine Hobby is at Loughborough University.
Editor 1
Elaine Hobby
Editorial Review
Maintains the series' high standards ... this work is not only significant in itself (as the first modern edition of the full text of Sharp's manual), but also for the way in which it might require us to reassess the work of Laqueur and Butler (Years Work in English Studies)