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Giving Birth in the 18th Century

Author: Sarah Reid

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Episodes Referencing This Book

June 02, 2022

Context:

Sarah Reid mentions this as a brand new book that came out the previous month, focused on women's lived experience of childbirth and community rather than a purely medical perspective. She highlights it as part of a scholarly trend toward centring women's own experiences of giving birth rather than relying on male-authored medical textbooks. A listener interested in social history of childbirth in the Georgian era would find this valuable.