Art Of Midwifery Research Articles

Normal births in Wales: Realising the Potential

At the moment in Wales there is a gradual sense of optimism and a renewed passion for the art of midwifery. This can, in part, be attributed to a sense of ownership and the clear direction provided by the publication of a midwifery briefing paper (Welsh Assembly Government, WAG, 2002). The impetus for developing the midwifery briefing paper was provided when the Nursing Division of the Welsh Assembly Government published the Strategy for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Realising the Potential (WAG, 2000).

The art of midwifery: Lost to technology?

This paper looks at how the art of midwifery is affected by the increasing availability and use of sophisticated technology. The use of the cardiotocograph is an example of how overuse of such technology can have detrimental affects, not only for the midwife but also for the woman in labour. While this technology has made a great impact in obstetric nursing, the effects on the low-risk pregnancy need to be evaluated. Midwives need to be research-based in their clinical practice and question the overuse of technology, such as the cardiotocograph, in cases where it is not warranted.

The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in europe

The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in europe

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article:Joanna E. Ziegler, Sculpture of Compassion. The Pieta and the Beguines in the Southern Low Countries c.1300‐C.1600Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal MagistratesLyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern EuropeWayne E. Franits, Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth‐Century Dutch ArtHilary Marland, The Art of Midwifery. Early Modern Midwives in EuropeSusan Brock and E. A. J. Honigman (eds) Playhouse Wills, 1558–1642. An Edition of Wills by Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in the London TheatreAmy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern EnglandDavid Lindley, The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King JamesLaura Levine, Men in Women's Clothing: Anti‐Theatricality and Effeminization 1579–1642Jean E. Howard, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern EnglandMargaret J. M. Ezell, Writing Women's Literary HistoryRichard Braverman, Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660–1730Mona Scheuermann, Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to AustenN. H. Keeble (ed.) The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth‐Century Woman: A ReaderAnne Laurence, Women in England 1500–1760: A Social HistoryMerry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Hilary Marland (ed.), The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in Europe, The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. xvi, 234, £50.00 (0–415–06425–2).

Hilary Marland (ed.), The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in Europe, The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. xvi, 234, £50.00 (0–415–06425–2). - Volume 39 Issue 1

The contribution of William Hunter (1718–1783) to the study of bone and joint disease

William Hunter (1718-1783), the elder of the two famous Hunter brothers, is best known for his remarkable book The Anatomy to the Human Gravid Uterus, and for his contributions to the art of midwifery. However, Hunter also made significant observations in cardiovascular disease, in comparative anatomy, and paleopathology. It is perhaps not sufficiently known that he also made significant contributions in rheumatic disease, and in particular, the anatomy and physiology of cartilage.

Important aspects of midwifery.

The art of midwifery must be one of the oldest of acquired skills. In prehistoric times, the more experienced women assisted and comforted their younger relatives during parturition. There are scattered references to midwives in ancient literature, including the Bible. In Genesis 35:17 we learn that Rachel’s death was the result of “ hard labour” . One should congratulate the midwife who delivered Sarah of a son at the age of 90 years - Genesis 17:17. Midwifery stagnated during the Middle Ages due, partly to the ignorance of the midwives as well as to a lack of knowledge of human anatomy coupled with the accepted teaching of the ancients, which was regarded as the ultimate authority. Great advances in the art and science of midwifery have occurred since the Middle Ages, amounting to a revolution in thought and practice. Less than 100 years ago, in 1898, in W.S. Playfair’s “Science and Practice of Midwifery” no mention was made of any form of antenatal examination or even of the testing of urine for albumin. Times have indeed changed - today the whole concept of maternal and child care would be quite unrecognisable to a Victorian midwife. We have also accepted the male midwife into our midst.

THE VALUE OF SYMPHYSIOTOMY.

Operative obstetrics is an essential part of a physician's education. The process of natural birth is merely an incident, but a birth may become eventful and ultimately tragic. Cases demand action in the order of their occurrence, namely: detention from want of maternal power; due to fetal malposition; arising from deformed fetus; by deformed maternal parts. Nature makes an effort to sacrifice upon these occasions the child for the mother, because her preservation is the conservation of the species—following this guide, accoucheurs strive to do this and more; therefore the highest aim of the art of midwifery is to save both, through the application of therapeutic remedies and other means. More Madden questions if we have an emmenagogue in the special sense in which we use it. Recently I had a letter from a Philadelphia physician, stating that brown sugar was an excellent uterine tonic! Upon this question at present

Recent Literature The Science and Art of Midwifery . By William Thompson Lusk, A.M., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc. Fourth edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1892.

Recent Literature The Science and Art of Midwifery . By William Thompson Lusk, A.M., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc. Fourth edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1892.

Science and Art of Midwifery.

Science and Art of Midwifery.

Recent Literature The Science and Art of Midwifery . By William Thompson Lusk, A.M., M.D. Third edition. 8vo. 763 pp. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1885.

Recent Literature The Science and Art of Midwifery . By William Thompson Lusk, A.M., M.D. Third edition. 8vo. 763 pp. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1885.

WHAT MEANS CAN BE JUDICIOUSLY EMPLOYED TO SHORTEN THE TERM AND LESSEN THE PAIN OF NATURAL LABOR?

(Read before the Section on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, June, 1883.) In no one thing has the wisdom and genius of the age been more thoroughly exhibited than in the advance and elevation of the art of midwifery. Once considered an inferior branch of medicine, it has, through the vigor and enlightenment of those pursuing ing it, risen to the highest rank in the scale of the sciences. Men have learned to properly appreciate the knowledge and skill by which, in the most cal hours of existence, pain is ameliorated, sorrow assuaged, and life saved. Through the goodness of God, the original curse placed on the mothers of men has been softened, if not nullified. “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children” will, before this generation tion has passed away, be but a record of the agony of the past. In the consideration of this subject, my purpose is

ART. XXVI The Science and Art of Midwifery

ART. XXVI The Science and Art of Midwifery

Bibliographical Notices A Course of Lectures on Obstetrics . Delivered at St. Mary's Hospital, London, by Wm. Tyler Smith, M.D., M.R.C.L. With an Introductory Lecture on the History of the Art of Midwifery, and copious practical Annotations, by Augustus R. Gardner, A.M., M.D., &c. Illustrated by 212 Engravings. 8vo. pp. 780.

Bibliographical Notices A Course of Lectures on Obstetrics . Delivered at St. Mary's Hospital, London, by Wm. Tyler Smith, M.D., M.R.C.L. With an Introductory Lecture on the History of the Art of Midwifery, and copious practical Annotations, by Augustus R. Gardner, A.M., M.D., &c. Illustrated by 212 Engravings. 8vo. pp. 780.