Jacques Gelis, History of childbirth: fertility, pregnancy and birth in early modern Europe, transl. Rosemary Morris, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1991, pp. xvii, 326, illus., £39.50 (0-7456-0677-6).

Irvine Loudon

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Jacques Gelis, History of childbirth: fertility, pregnancy and birth in early modern Europe, transl. Rosemary Morris, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1991, pp. xvii, 326, illus., £39.50 (0-7456-0677-6).

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Information: Medical History , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 216 - 219

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Jacques Gelis, History of childbirth: fertility, pregnancy and birth in early modern Europe, transl. Rosemary Morris, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1991, pp. xvii, 326, illus., £39.50 (0-7456-0677-6).

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