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.
Perceptions of Pregnancy 