TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giladi,Avner
TI  - Muslim midwives: the craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 978-1-107-05421-9
U1  - 618.2009394 23E
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islam / Middle East
KW  - Midwifery / history / Middle East
KW  - Ceremonial Behavior / Middle East
KW  - History, Medieval / Middle East
KW  - Parturition / ethnology / Middle East
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 165-189; 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
ER  -