History/Biography

This thought-provoking study makes an important contribution to the exploration of the relationship between medicine and culture.

This title is a lively and easy to read history of child-bearing from pre-historic times through to the modern methods used today.

This book presents a group of letters written home from Belgium and France in 1790 by a young surgeon, Mr Richard Croft.

Sixteen distinguished obstetricians and gynaecologists teamed up to identify between 10 and 20 striking articles in the decade allocated to them and to write commentaries thereon.

Jennifer Worth tells the story not only of the women she treated, but also of the community of nuns and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained.

Childbirth Across Cultures explores the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. It addresses multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe.

This is a study of fetal health from the seventeenth century to the present day. It is the first book to offer a historical perspective on the subject and to combine both medical history and epidemiological and demographic research, using long-term and comparative perspectives, including a strong international comparative element, across both Europe and North America. The book provides an account of how fetal health and the risks facing the unborn (miscarriages, abortions, stillbirths, etc) have changed, but it also offers an interpretation of the causes, one that focuses on the role of obstetrics and the epidemiology of maternal infections.

In this biography, Herbert Reiss presents a fascinating glimpse into the life of a great man in a deft and vivid portrait.

From Witchcraft to Wisdom: A History of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the British Isles tells the story of the development of childbearing since 1540.

This fascinating account follows the history of Harley Street, with notes on some of the famous (or infamous) people, lay or medical, who lived either in the street or nearby.

Paperback edition of the 1994 edition including all original illustrations and references.

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This meticulously researched and entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, to up-to-date contemporary clinical approaches.

This book is a lively personal memoir written by two men who were colleagues and friends of Ian Donald for more than thirty years.

Dr Matthew Baillie, a great physician and pathologist, was one of the most famous and successful medical men of his time.

Towards the end of 1969 Council decided that the time had come to attempt to record something of the lives of its Fellows, who had done so much to establish the College. Contained is an account of 318 Fellows.

The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine.

This book is a comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London.

The RCOG's collection of forceps and other obstetric instruments spans over 300 years of obstetric history and reflects practice as well as social, nutritional, economic and technological developments.

Obstetrics and Gynecology: A History and Iconography is the revised edition of Iconographia Gyniatrica, the first comprehensive attempt to record the history of obstetrics and gynecology through pictures.

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Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical profession in which both the providers and recipients of medical care continue to crave the human touch and are diminished by its absence. This collection provides an introductory profile of some of the more significant and fascinating characters in whose steps we follow.