How to be a midwife in late nineteenth-century Spain
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Routledge
Materia
Midwife 19th century Spain History Granada 20th century Obstretic surgical
Fecha
1997Referencia bibliográfica
ORTIZ GÓMEZ, T.; MARTÍNEZ PADILLA, C. How to be a midwife in late nineteenth-century Spain. En: Marland, H. and Rafferty, A. M. (eds.). Midwives, society and childbirth: debates and controversies in the modern period. London: Routledge, 1997. p. 61-80. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/22512]
Resumen
Since the mid-eighteenth century Spanish midwifery has been shaped along gender lines, differentiating between male theory, obstetric surgical science, and mostly female parctice, in one of the few professions carried out by women. After the mid-eighteenth century surgeons, the physicians, and the local authorities governed the profession between them. In this chapter we shall analyse the changes that took place with respect to access to the profession throughout the nineteenth century, and the practice of midwifery in the city of Granada at the beginning of the twentieth century.