The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife’s Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition (Volume 98) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction
	The Other Voice
	A Midwife’s Life and Work
		Who was Marie Baudoin?
		Marie Baudoin as a Jansenist Woman
		Clermont-Ferrand: Hospitals and Jansenists
		Mme Baudoin’s Career at the Hôtel-Dieu in Clermont-Ferrand
	Communities: Religious, Scientific, Financial, and Emotional
		A Physician, a Midwife, and Their Jansenist Networks
		A Woman of Means: Mme Baudoin’s Credit Networks and Financial Acumen
	Midwifery in Early Modern France
		Midwifery Texts in Seventeenth-Century France
		Midwifery Training in Mid-Seventeenth-Century France
		Midwifery Work and Practice in Seventeenth-Century France
		Surgical Instruments and the Performance of Expertise
	The Treatise in a Letter
		Epistolary Midwifery
		The Letter as Material Object
	Unseen and Unpublished: The Hidden Treatise
		Vallant’s Portefeuilles: Record-Keeping and Archival Afterlives
		Why Did the Treatise Remain Unpublished?
	Reception and Afterlife of the Treatise
	Notes on the Transcription and Translation
		Transcription
		Translation
		Key to Transcription and Translation
Translation of Mme Baudoin’s Epistolary Treatise
Transcription of Mme Baudoin’s Epistolary Treatise
Bibliography
Index