Community, Authority, and Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7837949 |
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| Authors | Carlebach Carlebach (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jewisocistud.20.2.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2135929346 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Jewish midwives in premodern Europe played important roles as medical practi tioners, as female professionals, and as communal employees. In addition to coordi nating medical and nursing services for birthing mothers, midwives served the community as liaisons to guard the morals of women. Two eighteenthcentury Dutch Jewish midwives’ registers discussed here testify not only to the broad social circles these women traversed and the religious and class boundaries they crossed but also to their professionalism and initiative in disseminating information about reproduction and maternal health
Archaeology · Ethnology · Guard (computer science · Judaism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Medicine · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Nursing
| Highly cited | No |
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