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b15e4a3419f10c50cb97e9c74cc6f00e |
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Date |
2010-12 |
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Is Part Of |
repository |
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Is Part Of |
p10863176 |
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abstract |
In seventeenth-century Rome a popular financial scheme made it crucial to establish
if pregnancy or childbirth had caused a woman’s death. Courts sought medical advice
and this prompted physicians to reconsider the issues. Their disagreements provide
historians with evidence from which to reassess received views of early modern doctors’
involvement with birthing bodies. Among others, Paolo Zacchia intervened, revealing
discord between physicians and jurists on how to establish the causes of death. One
of his testimonies in a case shows more broadly how legal, medical, and lay views
on pregnancy and childbirth intersected in courts of law. In Roman tribunals the very
distinction between healthy and preternatural births was contentious, and the parties
had an interest in having births either proved healthy in medical terms or construed
as pathological. The controversies, the author argues, challenge historical expectations
about early modern perceptions, including the boundaries between female and male,
private and public, healthy and pathological. |
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authorList |
authors |
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issue |
4 |
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status |
peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/25154 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/25155 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/25157 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/25158 |
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volume |
84 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
De Renzi, Silvia (2010). The risks of childbirth: physicians, finance, and women's
deaths in the law courts of seventeenth-century rome. Bulletin of the History of
Medicine, 84(4) pp. 549–577. |
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label |
De Renzi, Silvia (2010). The risks of childbirth: physicians, finance, and women's
deaths in the law courts of seventeenth-century rome. Bulletin of the History of
Medicine, 84(4) pp. 549–577. |
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Title |
The risks of childbirth: physicians, finance, and women's deaths in the law courts
of seventeenth-century rome |
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oro |