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Author Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, 1952- author.

Title Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
©1991

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Description 1 online resource : 27 halftones
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Caesarean Birth in Medical Thought -- 2. Caesarean Birth in the Artistic Imagination -- 3. The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics -- 4. Saintly and Satanic Obstetricians -- Appendix Creative Etymology: "Caesarean Section" from Pliny to Rousset -- Annotated List of Illustrations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski addresses the web of religious, ethical, and cultural questions concerning abdominal delivery in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ..
Analysis Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-197) and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
Subject Cesarean section -- Europe -- History
Cesarean section in art.
Medical illustration -- History
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Cesarean section
Cesarean section in art
Medical illustration
Renaissance
Europe
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History
Dictionaries.
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Form Electronic book
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