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Author Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, 1952-

Title Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations
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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 Examines texts and visual images of caesarean birth and traces its history in medical writing and practice ; addresses the work of religious, ethical and cultural questions surrounding abdominal delivery in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Analysis Cesarean section Europe History
Cesarean section in art106410008!
Geschichte 500-1600
Medical illustration History
Renaissance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index
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Subject Renaissance.
Medical illustration -- History
Cesarean section in art.
Cesarean section -- Europe -- History
Civilization, Medieval.
Cesarean Section -- history
Cesarean Section -- psychology
Medicine in the Arts
Renaissance.
Civilization, Medieval.
Cesarean section.
Cesarean section in art.
Medical illustration.
Renaissance.
Kaiserschnitt
Kunst
Kulturanthropologie
Kultur
Sectio caesarea.
Verloskundigen.
Geschichte (500-1600)
Europe.
Europe
Europe.
Europa
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 89017421
ISBN 9781501740480
1501740482
9781501740473
1501740474
0801499747
9780801499746