Spratt’s Flaps: Midwifery, Creativity, and Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Marginalization of Women's Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Bengal'

Taking all matters into consideration, the poor woman of this country should be an object of compassion rather than of our contempt The stimulus given to India by British example, and capital employed for the education of Indian females, is not among the least of her beneficial operations. The time will come when their worth shall be duly appreciated by the daughters of India; and then, should ...

Birth Attendants and Midwifery Practice in Early Twentieth-century Derbyshire

The 1902 Midwives Act introduced training and supervision for midwives in England and Wales, outlawing uncertified-and-untrained midwives (handywomen) and phasing out certified-but-untrained (bona fide) midwives. This paper compares the numbers and practices of these two different types of birth attendant with each other, with qualified and certified midwives and with doctors in early twentieth...

Medical knowledge and statistical methods in early nineteenth-century France.

INTRODUCTION In eighteenth-century France the outstanding achievements in the physical and natural sciences contrasted sharply with the limited advances of the medical arts. A growing confidence in the ability to manipulate the material world only increased frustration at the unsteady progress in medicine; the complex equilibrium between the human organism and the milieu eluded precise scrutiny...

Infantile hysteria and infantile sexuality in late nineteenth-century German-language medical literature.

BECAUSE one focus of Freud's work was his theory of infantile sexuality, there has been some interest in identifying other nineteenth-century writers who discussed this phenomenon.' Also, because of Freud's early papers on male hysteria, there has been interest in nineteenth-century beliefs about the occurrence of hysteria in males.2 Curiously enough, however, almost no one seems to have paid m...