Female Midwifery in the Czech Lands 1850-1950: A Career on the Decline

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Female Midwifery in the Czech Lands 1850-1950: A Career on the Decline

Original language description

Although midwives were incorporated into the administrative system governing the conditions of birth delivery, female midwifery became the target of verbal attacks from the leading authorities of scientific medicine. In professional medical journals, the opinion was repeatedly represented by articles accentuating the archaic element of midwives’ obstetric practice and, in particular, the lack of education and subsequent ability to absorb modern knowledge to improve obstetric practice. Professional discourse was constantly questioning the female midwives’ capabilities, which, together with constantly increasing number of female midwives, resulted in the lack of guaranteed financial support for female midwives’ professional practice. Thus, as a profession, midwifery mostly could not provide an opportunity in terms of economic and social independence.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-14082S" target="_blank" >GA17-14082S: Midwives: The Professionalization, Institutionalization and Performance of the First Ever Female Quallified Profession in the Course of Two Centuries.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theatrum historiae

ISSN

1802-2502

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

25

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

129-144

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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