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The
man-midwife caricature in the beginning of this section is frequently reprinted
in works about early man-midwifery in England. It was the frontispiece of
John Blunt's Man-Midwifery Dissected. Neither a physician nor a man-midwife
himself, Blunt argued against males as assistants in normal births.
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Questions to ask these pages: 2. What did Blunt say persuaded women to employ man-midwives, even in normal labors?
Questions to ask the book: 1. According to Blunt, what were the dangers of employing man-midvives? 2. How did Blunt propose to correct the man-midwife problem? |
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