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  1. Birth figures
    early modern prints and the pregnant body
    Author: Whiteley, Rebecca
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments;... more

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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments; Visualizing touch and defining a professional persona -- Part III: The birth figure persists (1751-1774). Challenging the Hunterian hegemony -- Conclusion. "The first full study of "birth figures," a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, 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 from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century in Western Europe. 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. "--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226823126
    Subjects: Obstetrics; Midwifery; Childbirth in art; Pregnancy in art; Fetus in art; Medical illustration; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Medicine and art; SCIENCE / History; ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
    Scope: xiv, 288 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-280
  2. Birth figures
    early modern prints and the pregnant body
    Author: Whiteley, Rebecca
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg
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    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226823126
    Subjects: Bauch <Motiv>; Druckgrafik; Säugling <Motiv>; Schwangerschaft <Motiv>; Anatomie <Motiv>
    Scope: xiv, 288 Seiten, Illustrationen
  3. Birth figures
    early modern prints and the pregnant body
    Author: Whiteley, Rebecca
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments;... more

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    Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    618 W594b
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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    ::8:2023:3180:
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    Gyn.32.2023
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    Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Bibliothek
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    20/8 23.404
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2023 C 1967
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    Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek Lübeck
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    Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
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    6270-589 3
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    64 A 1747
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    73.1787
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    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments; Visualizing touch and defining a professional persona -- Part III: The birth figure persists (1751-1774). Challenging the Hunterian hegemony -- Conclusion. "The first full study of "birth figures," a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, 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 from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century in Western Europe. 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. "--

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226823126
    Subjects: Obstetrics; Midwifery; Childbirth in art; Pregnancy in art; Fetus in art; Medical illustration; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Medicine and art; SCIENCE / History; ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
    Scope: xiv, 288 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-280