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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. | 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. | ||
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| + | What interested me the most about this article was the dramatic shift in attitudes with the shift from Midwives to Physicians between the centuries. Throughout the 18th century, it was more of a womanly affair with support and keeping the mother in mind at all times, and then in the 19th century with the male physicians, it came to putting the child first over the mother. Even though Scholten connects this shift to the advancement of science and social changes, I wonder why women put up with the shift in attitudes, was it because they were so used to the patriarchal system? --Heather T. | ||
== JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, Story of Margaretta, 1798 == | == JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, Story of Margaretta, 1798 == | ||
