Skip to main content

Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Author(s)

Vividly tracing the evolution of Caesarean birth from the early 1300s (when the operation was performed almost exclusively by midwives) through the Renaissance period (when midwives were considered witches and male surgeons took control).

Title of journal, book, etc.

Cornell University Press, 1991