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== Catherine Scholten, "On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art" 1977 == | == Catherine Scholten, "On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art" 1977 == | ||
| + | In this article, Scholten brings up a point I had not considered: that changes in the way childbirth was viewed and dealt with were connected to religious and social attitudes. I knew, of course, that the idea of men as midwives or obstetricians was a social change, and that there were a number of factors associated with that change. What I had not considered was how the religious view of childbirth changed as science changed. As science was able to make childbirth less painful for the mother, the clergy actually reinterpreted Biblical texts relating to childbirth. This was one effect of scientific changes which I had not considered. -- Rebecca W. | ||
== JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, Story of Margaretta, 1798 == | == JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, Story of Margaretta, 1798 == | ||
