Description: Further DetailsTitle: Birth FiguresCondition: NewFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/23/2023EAN: 9780226823126Subtitle: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant BodyISBN-10: 0226823121ISBN: 9780226823126Publisher: University of Chicago PressDescription: The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant womb, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images’ creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books in Western Europe from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. During this period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of medicine and midwifery and were widely produced. They reflected and shaped how the pregnant body was known and treated. And by providing crucial bodily knowledge to midwives and surgeons, birth figures were also deeply entangled with wider cultural preoccupations with generation and creativity, female power and agency, knowledge and its dissemination, and even the condition of the human in the universe. Birth Figures studies how different kinds of people understood childbirth and engaged with midwifery manuals, from learned physicians to midwives to illiterate listeners. Rich and detailed, this vital history reveals the importance of birth figures in how midwifery was practiced and in how people, both medical professionals and lay readers, envisioned and understood the mysterious state of pregnancy.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 30mmAuthor: Rebecca WhiteleyGenre: MedicineItem Weight: 594gEdition: FirstType: Medicine & Health SciencesRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Birth Figures
Title: Birth Figures
Release Date: 02/23/2023
Release Year: 2023
EAN: 9780226823126
Subtitle: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body
ISBN-10: 0226823121
ISBN: 9780226823126
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Medicine
Edition: First
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Birth Figures : Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Gynecology & Obstetrics, History, Anatomy, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Rebecca Whiteley
Subject Area: Art, Science, Medical
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
