Volume 4, Issue 4

    January 30, 2017

     

    Frontispiece

    Feature Articles

    On a miraculous birth …. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi

    The midwives of San Gimignano, 1336 …. Mary A. Osborne

    Princess Charlotte …. George Dunea & Einar Perman

    Medical History

    Historical contraception …. Emily R. W. Davidson

    Changes in childbirth in the US: 1750-1950 …. Laura Kaplan

    Forceps: a brief history … Sara Buck
    Leaders in the development of Western obstetric practices … Sara Buck

    Art, Literature, and Medicine

    Fertility/futility …. Raina Cowan

    Death lullabies in Russian culture …. Tatiana Novikova

    Renaissance birth trays… Rachel Baker

    How Gargantua was born

    Doctors, Patients, and Diseases

    Miracle on Kedvale …. Mary Sommers

    When angels sing …. Mary Sommers

    A silent birth …. Rose A. Devasia
    Gynecology and obstetrics …. Matko Marusic

    On Becoming a Medical Professional

    Broken water …. Erika L. Lundgrin

    Emotional medicine …. Lauren Fore

    From our Past Issues

    The dead mother series of Egon Schiele …. Prudence Gourguechon

    Lost babies …. Nancy Gershman

    Famous Hospitals

    Montreal Children’s Hospital …. Barry Pless

    Poetry

    Apple tree, Baby poems …. Jeanne Bryner

    At 38 weeks, wondering …. Catherine Belling

    Mother’s Day is different this year …. Diana Heiman

    Plaintive music …. Ron Domen

    After the funeral …. Terri Kirby Erickson

    No good options …. David G. Thoele

    In the NICU, The tumor …. Lydia Kang

    Heavy. Period., We breathe together …. Cheryl L. Kaplan Zachariah

    Hektorama: Divine Births

    Eve: fashioned from Adam’s rib

    Athena: born from her father’s head

    Birth of John the Baptist

    Pegasus: born from Medusa’s blood

    Aphrodite: born from the foam of the sea

    The birth of Moses

    The birth of Santa Claus

    On a miraculous birth