Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski.
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"-the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1990. ©1990. |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 204 p. :); ill. ; |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Caesarean Birth in Medical Thought
- 2. Caesarean Birth in the Artistic Imagination
- 3. The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics
- 4. Saintly and Satanic Obstetricians
- Appendix Creative Etymology: "Caesarean Section" from Pliny to Rousset
- Annotated List of Illustrations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index