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Overseeing Childbirth: The Revolutionary Forms of Surveillance That Reshaped Obstetrical Care

Year: 2025

Type: other

Abstract: When childbirth becomes a state affair Childbirth, an intimate, familial, and physiological event, has historically also been a space of control and surveillance. Paris between 1789 and 1804 represented a turning point in the history of childbirth and of midwifery: in a few years of dizzying political changes – absolute monarchy to republic, and eventually to empire under Napoleon – Parisian obstetrics underwent important institutional reforms that transformed it into a laboratory for experi...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/14q78

Author: Danieli, Elena

Language: English

Topic: Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7083016921

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