Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle east /
This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate betwe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Islamic views on birth and motherhood
- Midwifery as a craft
- The subordinate midwife : male physicians versus female midwives
- The absent midwife
- The privileged midwife
- Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place.