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Sheridan, Bridgette Ann Majella, Childbirth, Midwifery, and Science: The Life and Work of the French Royal Midwife Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636), Chestnut Hil, Tesi doctoral de la Universitat de Boston College, 2002, vii + 216 pp.
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- Louyse (or Louise) Bourgeois (c. 1563–1636) was a medical pioneer who paved the way for the modern profession of nurse–midwifery. As royal midwife in the early 16th century to King Henry IV of France and his wife Marie de Médicis, Bourgeois raised midwifery from folklore to science. For many years she delivered the babies of the top echelons of the French aristocracy, accumulating knowledge of the anatomy of childbirth and asserting the value of the knowledge of midwives as compared with that of the male surgeons who controlled the childbirth setting. Possessed of strong scientific instincts, she wrote voluminously, making important contributions to obstetrics. But at the root of her methods were common–sense convictions: each birth, she felt, was an individual experience unlike any other, and natural processes ought to be trusted, with birth attendants in most cases intervening, if at all, only to help nature along.
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