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Midwifery - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Historically, midwifery has been one of the few medical practices dominated by female practitioners. |
| | From Agnodice in ancient Greece to the 18th century in Europe, the care of mothers and delivery of infants has been regarded, both by patients and by the medical profession, as appropriately carried out by women. |
| | In the 18th century, a division between surgeons and midwives arose as medical men began to assert that their modern scientific processes were better for mothers and infants than the folk-medical midwives. |
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