The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
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Author(s)Jane Sharp
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0195086538
ISBN-139780195086539
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Sales Rank1,323,493
CategoryLiterary Criticism
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.
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