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Green, Monica H., "Midwives and Obstetric Catastrophe: Retrieving the Past", The Lancet, 372/9644 (2008), 1142 - 1143.
- Resum
- Around 1298 in the southern French city of Marseille, a young woman named Dulceta suffered from a prolonged labour, the fetus already dead in her womb. Dulceta remained an invalid for 2 years thereafter, bedridden from paralysis, worms growing in sores on her body, and “stinking so badly that scarcely anyone could stand to be near her”. As a historian, it will never be within my power to alleviate the sufferings of women such as Dulceta—now dead so many centuries ago. But it is within my power to retrieve some understanding of how the systems of knowledge and practice we call the medical art functioned in times very different from our own.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
Dones
- URL
- http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI ...
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