Picturing pregnancy : a history of the early modern birth figure
This thesis provides a history of early modern birth figures: images of the fetus in the disembodied uterus, printed in midwifery and surgical books, which describe the variety of fetal presentations. While these images have accompanied midwifery and gynaecological texts from before the invention of...
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University College London (University of London)
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.756283 |