Skip to content

Mistaking histories

Thinking about medicine and the body in history

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Mistaking histories
  • About
  • Contact

Tag: Little Wittenham

birth, death, God, monuments, pregnancy

The histories of miscarriage and stillbirth

May 28, 2019 fluff35

Three children who died too young: what can they tell us about how we frame and then answer our questions about the past?

Tagged Anne Dunch, Anne Laurence, Christianity, Elizabeth Stewkeley, Hinton Ampner, Julia Bueno, Little Wittenham, Mary Carey, miscarriage, Ralph Houlbrooke, stillbirth4 Comments

Search

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Top Posts & Pages

  • Cleopatra and the vibrator powered by bees
  • The Church and the clitoris
  • The history of menstruation
  • Pliny on corns and bras
  • The history of tampons - in ancient Greece?
  • Stone Babies: The Lithopedion of Sens
  • Queen Victoria's cannabis habit: again
  • Period pains - have women always suffered from menstrual cramps?
  • Julia Pastrana, 'bearded lady'
  • Hairs of Hippocrates?

Blog Stats

  • 205,092 hits

What's it all about?

Bad History beards birth death diseases dissection doctors drugs food Galen gender God Hippocrates internet love medical instruments menstruation midwives museums and collections myth pregnancy religion remedies sex teaching Uncategorized virginity vulva womb

Recent Posts

  • What is a woman? ‘Common sense’ in history
  • ‘Just practising’? The history of Adam’s rib
  • Let’s talk about (assisted) dying
  • Talking about the book
  • Judging a book by its cover
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Mistaking histories
    • Join 180 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Mistaking histories
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...