Medieval & Renais Text Studies
1 primary work
Book 520
Midwife to the Queen of France – Diverse Observations
Published 6 November 2017
Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a midwife committed to improving the care of women and newborns, it records the evolution of Bourgeois’s practice and beliefs, comments on changing attitudes related to reproductive health, and critiques the gendered elitism of the early modern medical hierarchy