The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
Book Details
Author(s)
Jane Sharp
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0195086538
ISBN-13
9780195086539
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Sales Rank
#1,323,493
Category
Literary Criticism
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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.
