Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hilary marland

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  • WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    FILDES, VALERIE / MARKS, LARA / MARLAND, HILARY
    First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments, institutions and individuals in those countries. Contributors display how policy a...

    $1,100.00

  • ILLNESS AND HEALING ALTERNATIVES IN WESTERN EUROPE
    HILARY MARLAND
    Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a b...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ART OF MIDWIFERY
    HILARY MARLAND
    The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The ...

    $1,160.00

  • MIDWIVES, SOCIETY AND CHILDBIRTH
    HILARY MARLAND
    Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in deliver...

    $1,560.00