Facets

1807 CE

#6163.1

A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.

First significant textbook on obstetrics written by an American. Bard gave an excellent description of the mechanism of labor, and of pre-eclampsia. Woodcut illustrations were engraved by American physician and illust…

2016 CE

#10419

A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.

1990 CE

#7883

A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.

1903 CE

#10633

A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860.

First published in Dohrn's Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit, zugleich als dritter Band des Versuchs einer Geschichte der Geburtshülfe, von Eduard von Siebold, Erste Abtheilung (Tübingen, 1903) 19…

1826 CE

#6026.1

A treatise on the diseases of females.

First American textbook on gynecology.

2006 CE

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

1986 CE

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

2018 CE

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1991 CE

#10983

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.

2014 CE

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

1862 CE

#2166.1

Notes on arrow wounds.

The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …

1980 CE

#6311.7

Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.