What: Midwifery Today Conference “Pillars of Midwifery: Insight, Information, and Intuition”
Where: Bad Wildbad, Germany
When: 21-25 October 2015
Registration: 8 June 2015 (early)
Category Archives: Midwives
Midwifery Knowledge in Late 18th and Early 19th Century Germany
Submitted by Marystella Ramirez Guerra, PhD candidate, Germany.
Key words: popular medicine, childbirth, German midwives
During the late Eighteength and early Nineteenth Century there was an increase in publications that claimed to provide medical information and advice to the general reading public in most German speaking lands (here understood as all territories in current Germany and Austria, though for the project itself, the focus will be much more geographically reduced). These were the result of a state-guided movement to improve the population’s overall health as an asset for the strengthening of state.
Poverty, Poor-relief, and Charity in Long Eighteenth-Century Britain (c.1688-1832)
Submitted by Megan Webber, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Key words: charities, lying-in hospitals, poor-relief
Historians of poverty, poor-relief, and charity in long eighteenth-century Britain (c.1688-1832) have defined plebeian “agency” in multiple ways. My PhD dissertation aims to provide a nuanced picture of agency within early nineteenth-century London charities, exploring how individual charities’ unique blends of discourse, policy, management, spatial arrangement, and situation within broader networks of relief affected how, and under what conditions, the poor exerted their influence.
