From Girlhood to Motherhood: Rituals of Childbirth and Obstetrical Medicine Re-Examined through John Milton
| Autor: | Ashleigh Frayne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Register (sociolinguistics)
medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Psychoanalysis media_common.quotation_subject 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Physicians Childbirth Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Ceremonial Behavior media_common Language business.industry Health Policy Parturition 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Obstetrics 0602 languages and literature Rhetoric Female business Period (music) |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of medical humanities. 41(2) |
| ISSN: | 1573-3645 |
| Popis: | This article considers how seventeenth-century writer John Milton engages in modes of thinking that register the obstetric revolution occurring during the period. During a time when physicians were gaining entry to the birthing room, a medical rhetoric of childbirth was developing that cast childbirth in new pathological terms. Milton's A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle demonstrates how childbirth was influenced by emerging obstetrical language and practice, as well as the ways in which a writer might question such influence. Finally, this article also draws links between disrupted historical rituals of childbirth and modern anxieties about medically-centred birthing practices. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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