The Midwives Book Or The Whole Art Of Midwifry Discovered

by JaneSharp (Author), ElaineHobby (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $32.83

  When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising.