History Home Page > Health > Professions > Midwifery > History >     Related categories: » Top/Health/Nursing/History » Top/Society/History/By Topic/Science/Medicine » Top/Society/History/By Topic/Social History/Health   Web Sites A History of Midwifery in North Carolina A general timeline of important dates, statistics and legislation passed by the state. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Oaks/5754/history.html   Biography of Mary Breckinridge Regarded as the first to bring nurse-midwifery to the United States and founder of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. Includes photographs, illustrations and a list of further reading. http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/press/breckinridge.html   Contributions by the Midwives of Antiquity to the Art and Science of Modern Medicine Article which lists and gives brief descriptions of notable practitioners from ancient through to new world times. Also details the changeable attitudes towards the profession. http://www.collegeofmidwives.org/legal_legislative01/HxMfryIndex01/antiqmdw.htm   Delivering Childbirth - The Orlando Project Paper which researches novels written by women during the 18th century on the subject. Compares the realities with the way in which writings of the time presented the experience. http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/Childbirth.htm   Kate Sheppard Midwifery - History of Midwifery Features a brief general overview as well as focusing on New Zealand's past to the recent present. http://www.ksmidwifery.co.nz/history.shtml   Midwifery in Wisconsin Covers the period from 1850 - 1905. Describes general practices and includes a list for further reading. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello/FLVA/voices/839/voices/midwives/   Royal College Of Midwives: History Details the roots, challenges and emergence of the RCM in the UK from 1881 to the present day. http://www.rcm.org.uk/data/about/data/general/history.htm   The History of Midwifery and Childbirth - A Time Line Offers a time line of childbirth and midwifery in America. Includes further links to books of interest and organizations mentioned within. http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/timeline.asp   Who Was Martha Ballard? Explores the diary of a midwife from the Massachusetts town of Oxford between the years of 1785 until 1813. Includes extracts, stories, themes and a search function. http://dohistory.org/martha/index.html     History

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