: the Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East
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\ Avner Giladi, University of Haifa.
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New York
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: Cambridge University Press
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, 2015
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x,195 p.
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Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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Index
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Islamic views on birth and motherhood -- Midwifery as a craft -- The subordinate midwife : male physicians versus female midwives -- The absent midwife -- The privileged midwife -- Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place.