About Midwives and Midwifery - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/midwives/
A collection of net links on the history of midwives and midwifery, from About.com. |
Biography of Mary Breckinridge - http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/press/breckinridge.html
Regarded as the first to bring nurse-midwifery to the United States and founder of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. Includes photographs, illustrations and a list of further reading. |
Contributions by the Midwives of Antiquity to the Art and Science of Modern Medicine - http://www.collegeofmidwives.org/legal_legislative01/HxMfryIndex01/antiqmdw.htm
Article which lists and gives brief descriptions of notable practitioners from ancient through to new world times. Also details the changeable attitudes towards the profession. |
Delivering Childbirth - The Orlando Project - http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/Childbirth.htm
Paper which researches novels written by women during the 18th century on the subject. Compares the realities with the way in which writings of the time presented the experience. |
Kate Sheppard Midwifery - History of Midwifery - http://www.ksmidwifery.co.nz/history.shtml
Features a brief general overview as well as focusing on New Zealand's past to the recent present. |
Midwifery in Wisconsin - http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello/FLVA/voices/839/voices/midwives/
Covers the period from 1850 - 1905. Describes general practices and includes a list for further reading. |
The History of Midwifery and Childbirth - A Time Line - http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/timeline.asp
Offers a time line of childbirth and midwifery in America. Includes further links to books of interest and organizations mentioned within. |
Who Was Martha Ballard? - http://dohistory.org/martha/index.html
Explores the diary of a midwife from the Massachusetts town of Oxford between the years of 1785 until 1813. Includes extracts, stories, themes and a search function. |