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‘Midwives, men-midwives and childbirth’ Lecture 5 Medicine, Disease and Society in Britain, 1750 - 1950 Lecture themes and outline The ‘medicalisation’ of childbirth? Traditional childbirth - Fear and ceremony Midwives - Roles, training and characteristics Midwives versus men-midwives 4. The growth of lying-in hospitals 5. Changes in the late C19 and early C20 century General practitioners, registration Diary of Isaac Archer re his wife Anne Peachey ‘My wife growing nearer her time was troubled with feares she should die; and I feared it too. She was much taken up, I saw, with such t