What do we look for in a midwife? Short nails feature a lot in the history of midwifery! Back in the second century AD, a doctor called Soranus wrote a book we now know as the Gynaecology. In consecutive chapters, he first answers the question ‘Who is able to become a midwife?’ and then turns… Continue reading The ideal midwife?
Category: midwives
“Call the Midwife” – or knit your own womb
(this post develops an earlier version that first appeared in July 2013 on http://departu.org.uk) It was one of those moments that only happens when academics and practitioners are in the same room… For about a year, I had been thinking about the history of visual representations of body parts, and had been introducing audiences… Continue reading “Call the Midwife” – or knit your own womb
Mistaking histories 