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British Midwifery; The “Byrth of Mankynde.” (Its Author and Editions.); “These griping greefes and pinching pangs”: Attitudes to Childbirth in Thomas Bentley’s The Monument of Matrones (1582); Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-witch; Elizabeth Cellier in 1688 on Envious Doctors and Heroic Midwives Ancient and Modern; The Perils of Early Modern Procreation: Childbirth with or without Fear? 1; Is Childbirth Any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England; American Midwifery; “Childbirth-Travells” and “Spiritual Estates”: Anne Hutchinson and Colonial Boston, 1634-1638; “The Living Mother of a Living Child”: Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England; Science Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century; Called to Her at Three O’Clock AM: Obstetrical Practice in Physician Case Notes; Midwifery; Obstetrics and the Work of Doctoring in the Mid-Nineteenthcentury American South; The Woman’s Experience of Childbirth on the Western Frontier; Bloodletting in American Obstetric Practice, 1800-1945; The Training and Practice of Midwives: A Wisconsin Study; The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts; Mary Breckinridge, the Frontier Nursing Service and the Introduction of Nurse-Midwifery in the United States; Pregnancy and Parturition from a Woman’s Point of View; Pregnancy, Labor and Body Image in the United States; Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Working-Class Women, Middle-Class Women, and Models of Childbirth