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Being Well, Looking Ill: Childbirth and the Return to Health in Seventeenth-century England
For a month after childbirth, the authors of medical and religious prescriptive literature instructed new mothers to keep to their beds. During this time they were expected to bleed away the bodily remnants of pregnancy. At the end of this month writers considered women ‘well’. Bleeding, in this def...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5914441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkw086 |