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(More customer reviews)Thank goodness for those modern women scholars who have translated such amazing medieval women's books such as this one. Now we have the women's voices themselves, and the modern reader will be both shocked and fascinated by what was believed about midwifery in the middle ages. I found this subject so interesting that I made the main character of my historical novelRashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam a midwife.
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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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