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  • IDEAS AND PRACTICES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 1650–1820
    ADRIAN WILSON
    Although articles in this volume fall into three thematic clusters, each of those groups exemplifies three general themes: micro-social processes; innovations and the question of continuity versus discontinuity; and the relationship between ideas and practice. Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. th...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MAKING OF MAN-MIDWIFERY
    ADRIAN WILSON
    Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practices. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of babies were being delivered by men – a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This authoritative and challenging work explains this...

    $980.00

  • RITUAL AND CONFLICT: THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF CHILDBIRTH IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
    ADRIAN WILSON
    This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the ’ceremony of childbirth’, the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. ...

    $1,600.00

  • FAMILY
    ADRIAN WILSON
    Adrian Wilson provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the family. The book opens with a chapter on family structure, looking at the family historically and in cross-cultural perspective. Following this is a review first of theoretical approaches to the family, including functionalist, feminist, Marxist and radical criticism, and second, how the family is studied s...

    $1,260.00