Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle East
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書誌事項
Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle East
（Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization）
Cambridge University Press, 2017,c2015
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"First paperback edition 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-189) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate between male authority in patriarchal society and female reproductive power within the family. This study also takes a broader historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period and addressing the confrontation between traditional midwifery and Western obstetrics in the first half of the nineteenth century.
目次
- Introduction
- 1. Islamic views on birth and motherhood
- 2. Midwifery as a craft
- 3. The subordinate midwife: male physicians versus female midwives
- 4. The absent midwife
- 5. The privileged midwife
- 6. Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place
- 7. From traditional to modern midwifery in the Middle East
- Concluding remarks.
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