The German Midwife

Author: Mandy Robotham
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008339317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The USA Today Best Seller. An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and My Name is Eva will love.

The German Midwife

Author: Mandy Robotham
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000840870X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
An enthralling tale from the #1 Globe and Mail and USA Today Best Selling Author. “A powerful, haunting debut”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

The Court Midwife

Author: Justine Siegemund
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226757102
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.

The Berlin Girl

Author: Mandy Robotham
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008364508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
***A USA Today Bestseller.*** The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife.

Modern German Midwifery, 1885–1960

Author: Lynne Fallwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a separation of midwifery from modern medicine, in Germany new standards of health care were embraced. Fallwell’s study explores this transition and sets it in its wider historical context.

A Woman of War

Author: Mandy Robotham
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008324239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places. Also published as The German Midwife.

The Secret Messenger

Author: Mandy Robotham
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008324255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War).

The Midwife of Venice

Author: Roberta Rich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145165748X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. A “lavishly detailed” (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Told with exceptional skill, The Midwife of Venice brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.

Consultation with a Midwife

Author: Ingeborg Stadelmann
Publisher: Stadelmann Verlag
ISBN: 9783943793000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Book Description
Ingeborg Stadelmann is Germany's most popular Midwife and mother of three children. She wrote her book for expectant parents and fellow midwives. Consultation with a Midwife takes readers from the beginning of pregnancy to childbirth, then going on to discuss breast-feeding and the postnatal phase. It provides advice and tips on herbal medicine, homoeopathy and aroma therapy. This book is a veritable treasure trove for anyone seeking information on natural pregnancy, childbirth and childbed. Since the publication of Consultation with a Midwife, there has been a perceivable change in the way pregnancy, childbirth and childbed - until the end of the breastfeeding period - are dealt with. Magdalene Weiss, Former president of the German Midwives' Association Sensitive, natural guidance through pregnancy, childbirth, childbed and breast-feeding with herbal medicine, homoeopathy and aroma therapy."

Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany

Author: Susan Benedict
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317859391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives the facts as well as theoretical perspectives as a lens through which these crimes can be viewed. It also provides a way to teach this history to nursing and midwifery students, and, for the first time, explains the role of one of the world’s most historically prominent midwifery leaders in the Nazi crimes.