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De Partu site maintenance

by Catherine April 16, 2014 No Comments

The De Partu site is currently undergoing maintenance. You will notice the new background image (from Muscio, courtesy of the Wellcome Library) and new member login with the logo above. I am pleased to report that I have now identified a solution to the member login issue. The new login box (to be found at […]

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Dr Louisa Owsley, midwife and homoeopath (Texas, late 19th century)

by Catherine April 15, 2014 No Comments

  Dr Louisa Owsley – the first female homoeopath doctor of Denton County in Texas. She practised homoeopathic medicine and was a skilled midwife, delivering over 4,000 babies in her 34-year career. She was still working at age 75 when, one night in a bad storm, probably on her way to a delivery, her horse […]

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Book launch: Birth control and the rights of women

by Catherine April 8, 2014 No Comments
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New resources

by Janette Allotey March 27, 2014 No Comments

Full copies of the Midwives Acts of 1902 and 1918 have now been uploaded to the Resources page.

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Reading and talking about ‘The Woman’s Book’ in Renaissance England

by Catherine February 23, 2014 No Comments

Medical Humanities Sheffield is proud to launch a series of open interdisciplinary lectures, for students, staff and the public. WEDNESDAY 26 February – 6 p.m. Firth Hall Professor Jennifer Richards Reading and Talking about The Woman’s Book in Renaissance England “Most written knowledge about women’s bodies” in late medieval Europe, argues Monica H. Green, “is […]

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How it became almost mandatory for dads to attend the birth

by Catherine February 4, 2014 No Comments

Times have changed and it is now rare that a man does not attend the birth of his baby, but how did it come to pass and could things ever change back? BBC News article 14/03/13. by Lucy Wallis

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The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project

by Catherine January 14, 2014 No Comments

Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge *** The Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine *** Thursday 16 January 2014 at 4.30pm The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow) Ultrasonic images of the fetus are now ubiquitous. Like […]

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Regards socio-historiques sur la santé comme problème public

by Catherine January 7, 2014 No Comments

I am pleased to announce the following symposium: Regards socio-historiques sur la santé comme problème public : don et transplantation d’organes, cancer, sida, dépendance au jeu et santé mentale [Historical and sociological perspectives on health as a public problem: organ donation, cancer, AIDS, gambling addiction and mental health]. This symposium will be held in French, […]

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Christmas greetings

by Catherine December 24, 2013 No Comments

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone from the Chair and Steering Group of De Partu

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New book: Menstruation and the female body in early modern England, by Sara Read

by Catherine November 19, 2013 No Comments
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9th annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction

by Catherine November 10, 2013 No Comments

The 9th annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction at Cambridge will be held on Friday Nov. 15th from 9.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m. Registrations have unfortunately already closed, but the programme and Twitter coverage may be of interest. Presentations this year range from oocyte preservation, to the emerging meanings of cells, to the role of motherhood. […]

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BBC 4 series: Medieval lives: birth, marriage, death

by Catherine October 10, 2013 No Comments

Janette Allotey, Chair of De Partu, was interviewed by Helen Castor for the first programme in the series, which was broadcast on 9th October 2013. It will be available on BBC iPlayer to view or download until October 8th 2013.

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De Partu Anuual Lecture 2013

by Janette Allotey August 22, 2013 No Comments

De Partu Anuual Lecture May 31st 2013: Professor Valerie Worth, University of Oxford. “Who was present at the birth? Interpreting written and visual sources from early modern France.”

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Knit your own womb?

by Catherine July 24, 2013 No Comments

By Helen King (helen.king@open.ac.uk) It was one of those moments that only happens when academics and practitioners are in the same room… For about a year, I had been thinking about the history of visual representations of body parts, and had been introducing audiences in the UK and beyond to some of the knitting patterns […]

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V M Whitworth shares her novel writing experiences

by Janette Allotey June 18, 2013 No Comments

 

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