Childbirth and women's healthcare in pre-modern societies: an assessment
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Childbirth and women's healthcare in pre-modern societies: an assessment.
(*) Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg [email protected] (**) Cluster of Excellence «Asia and Europe in a Global Context», Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg, [email protected] (***) Institute of Egyptology, Universität Heidelberg [email protected]...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dynamis
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0211-9536
DOI: 10.4321/s0211-95362014000200001