Contents:
Mothers and their midwives in seventeenth-century London / Doreen Evenden -- Provincial midwives in England : Lancashire and Chesire, 1660-1760 / David Harley -- Midwifery practice among the Quakers in southern rural England in the late seventeenth century / Ann Giardina Hess -- The midwives of south Germany and the public/private dichotomy / Merry E. Wiesner -- From hegemony to subordination : midwives in early modern Spain / Teresa Ortiz -- The politick midwife : models of midwifery in the work of Elizabeth Cellier / Helen King -- Midwife to a nation : Mme du Coudray serves France / Nina Gelbart -- The Church, the state and childbirth : the midwife in Italy during the eighteenth century / Nadia Maria Filippini.
Professionals? Sisters? Rivals? : midwives in Braunschweig, 1750-1800 / Mary Lindemann -- The 'burgerlijke' midwife : the stadsvroedvrouw of eighteenth-century Holland / Hilary Marland.