Justina Siegemund and the Art of Midwifery

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ID11025889
AuthorsNava Blum (Nava Blum is with the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, and the Department of Health Systems Administration, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Yezreel Valley, Israel. Hilary J. Lane is with the History of Medicine Library, Mayo Medical Libraries, Rochester, Minnesota. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.), Hilary J Lane (Nava Blum is with the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, and the Department of Health Systems Administration, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Yezreel Valley, Israel. Hilary J. Lane is with the History of Medicine Library, Mayo Medical Libraries, Rochester, Minnesota. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.), Elizabeth Fee (Nava Blum is with the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, and the Department of Health Systems Administration, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Yezreel Valley, Israel. Hilary J. Lane is with the History of Medicine Library, Mayo Medical Libraries, Rochester, Minnesota. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.)
Year2010
Volume100
Issue1
Pages68-69
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2009.171371
PMID19910341
PMCIDPMC2791243
OpenAlexW2092137779
LanguageEN
References cited2

The article profiles German midwife Justina Siegemund. Published in 1960, Siegemund's book was the first German medical text written by a woman. She decided to study and practice midwifery in 1959 after suffering from the care of midwives who assumed she was pregnant. In 1701 she was appointed Court Midwife of Berlin, Germany by Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William

Archaeology · German · Nurse-Midwives · Obstetrics · Pregnancy · Health and Medical Studies · History · Medicine · Nursing

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