A nova cultura científica na obstetrícia e sues efeitos profissionais (séc. XIX)

Resumo

The role of the midwife was to care mothers in childbirth. For centuries, in the agrarian society, her action was based in a folk knowledge. Since the 19th century, her graduation was taken in academic institutions, due to the new institutional conditions, leaded by the medical profession and its scientific strategies: the midwives should be supervised by medicine, according the knowledge and technology developed in the medical obstetric.