Tending Mothers and the Fruits of the Womb

1 - Contents [Seite 6]
2 - List of Figures and Tables [Seite 8]
3 - Acknowledgements [Seite 10]
4 - Glossary of German and Medical Terms [Seite 12]
5 - Introduction [Seite 14]
5.1 - Midwifery in Leipzig [Seite 15]
5.2 - Histories of midwifery [Seite 17]
5.3 - Midwifery and Enlightenment [Seite 23]
5.4 - Time and place: Leipzig, 1650-1810 [Seite 28]
5.5 - Sources [Seite 35]
5.6 - Overview [Seite 39]
6 - Chapter One: Midwifery, the City and the State Between Tradition and Reform [Seite 41]
6.1 - Regulating midwifery from the Middle Ages to the Reformation [Seite 41]
6.2 - From oath to instruction: midwifery regulation in Leipzig [Seite 44]
6.3 - Midwifery and the state [Seite 49]
6.4 - Reforming midwifery in Leipzig, c. 1650-1740 [Seite 57]
6.5 - Conclusions [Seite 78]
7 - Chapter Two: The Midwifery Landscape [Seite 82]
7.1 - Sworn midwives [Seite 85]
7.2 - Beifrauen (sworn apprentices) [Seite 97]
7.3 - Wickelweiber (swaddling women) [Seite 101]
7.4 - Gassenmägde (female street servants) [Seite 104]
7.5 - Healers and nurses [Seite 107]
7.6 - Appointing midwives [Seite 109]
7.7 - The changing structure of the midwifery landscape [Seite 115]
8 - Chapter Three: Life-Cycle, the Household Oeconomy and the Meaning of Midwifery Work [Seite 121]
8.1 - The data [Seite 124]
8.2 - Age: the demise of maturity [Seite 126]
8.3 - Marriage and motherhood: from matron to working mother [Seite 133]
8.4 - Socio-economic milieus: the artisan midwife [Seite 137]
8.5 - Midwifery, family and household [Seite 148]
8.6 - Midwifery and the household oeconomy: the forces of poverty [Seite 154]
8.7 - Midwifery as a family tradition [Seite 158]
8.8 - The social and ideological meaning of midwifery [Seite 161]
8.9 - Conclusions [Seite 166]
9 - Chapter Four: The Moral Economy of Midwifery [Seite 168]
9.1 - The moral economy as a dialogue [Seite 169]
9.2 - Encroachment and the moral economy of early modern work [Seite 174]
9.3 - Patterns of encroachment [Seite 178]
9.4 - Conclusions [Seite 194]
10 - Chapter Five: Midwives, Clients and Trust [Seite 196]
10.1 - The social and geographical patterns of client networks [Seite 197]
10.2 - Midwifery: a matter of trust [Seite 202]
10.3 - Mistrust: midwives, illegitimacy and infanticide [Seite 208]
10.4 - Defending a clientele, defining a client [Seite 211]
10.5 - Conclusions [Seite 215]
11 - Chapter Six: Midwives, Medical Men and Clients: Demarcating the Parameters of Midwifery Practice [Seite 217]
11.1 - Defining midwifery in medical discourses [Seite 220]
11.2 - Childbed maladies and childbed practitioners: the parameters of midwifery practice [Seite 223]
11.3 - Midwives, Accoucheurs and the power of the 'patient' [Seite 229]
11.4 - The practice of municipal man-midwifery [Seite 231]
11.5 - 'Natural' and 'unnatural' births [Seite 236]
11.6 - Turning point? Booking the Accoucheur [Seite 243]
11.7 - Conclusions [Seite 247]
12 - Chapter Seven: The 'Difficult Birth' of Clinical Midwifery [Seite 249]
12.1 - Maternity hospitals in Germany and Europe [Seite 250]
12.2 - The Stadtaccoucheur plans a 'Hebammeninstitut' [Seite 253]
12.3 - Midwifery in the lazarette [Seite 256]
12.4 - Renewing plans for a 'Hebammeninstitut' [Seite 260]
12.5 - The Triersches Institut [Seite 268]
12.6 - Conclusions [Seite 270]
13 - Conclusion [Seite 272]
14 - Appendices [Seite 279]
15 - Bibliography [Seite 286]
16 - Indices [Seite 305]