Akuszerki rządowe Wolnego Miasta Krakowa (1815–1846). Z dziejów publicznej służby zdrowia na ziemiach polskich w XIX wieku

• Authors: Mateusz Mataniak

Abstracts

EN

This article presented an activity of government midwives in the Free City of Cracow (1815–1846), including the proffesional qualifications of the midwife, their salary and rules of proffesional liability. A detalied analysis of the competence of midwives has been made, also therein rules of receiving childbirth, ways of responding to the threat to health and life of mother and child, equipping with obstetric tools etc. The principles of government supervision (Protomedic, City Physicist, District Physicist) over midwives are also discussed. Fundamental importance for the study were the documents kept at the National Archives in Cracow, official journals and also studies of the history of medicine on Polish lands.

Keywords

EN

Free State of Cracow; midwife (accoucheuse); obstetrics (tocology); medical care

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Krakowskie Studia Małopolskie
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 22
• Pages: 162-181

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Mateusz Mataniak

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ksm201711

Biblioteka Nauki

2003946