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18 Only by the seventeenth century do we find the man - midwife appearing on
the scene , and he appears at the moment when the male medical profession is
beginning to control the practice of healing , refusing professional ” status to ...
18 Only by the seventeenth century do we find the man - midwife appearing on
the scene , and he appears at the moment when the male medical profession is
beginning to control the practice of healing , refusing professional ” status to ...
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Thus , the midwife , with her already formidable expertise and power in the matter
of life itself , became completely threatening when she challenged religious
doctrine . She became a witch . Anne Hutchinson was not alone . The first person
...
Thus , the midwife , with her already formidable expertise and power in the matter
of life itself , became completely threatening when she challenged religious
doctrine . She became a witch . Anne Hutchinson was not alone . The first person
...
Page 142
Her pride in the midwife ' s multiplicity of skills , “ small hands ” with their feminine
dexterity , and “ tenderness ” of heart toward the women in her care , sug . gests
that for Nihell and others like her , the forceps would never have become the ...
Her pride in the midwife ' s multiplicity of skills , “ small hands ” with their feminine
dexterity , and “ tenderness ” of heart toward the women in her care , sug . gests
that for Nihell and others like her , the forceps would never have become the ...
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