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Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), [1] in addition to the sexual and reproductive health of women throughout their lives. [2]
The closest similarity to that of a nurse during antiquity was a midwife. Midwifery flourished in ancient civilizations, including Egypt, Byzantium, Mesopotamia, and the Mediterranean empires of Greece and Rome. There were doctors within the Greco-Roman world who wrote favourably of midwifery.
The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school (St. Thomas' Hospital). [3] Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale , the founder of modern nursing, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the ...
55 AD – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess. [2] 300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing. [3] c. 390 AD – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola. [4] c. 620 AD – Rufaida Al-Aslamia became the first Muslim nurse.
A midwife (pl.: midwives) is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialisation known as midwifery.. The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; concentrating on being experts in what is normal and identifying conditions that need further evaluation.
Greilsammer, Myriam (1991). "The Midwife, the Priest, and the Physician: The Subjugation of Midwives in the Low Countries at the End of the Middle Ages". The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 21: 285– 329. Harley, David (1999). "Historians As Demonologists: the Myth of the Midwife-Witch". Social History of Medicine. 3 (1): 1– 26.
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray was born into an eminent French medical family in Clermont-Ferrand.In February 1740, at the age of twenty-five, Angélique du Coudray completed her three-year apprenticeship with Anne Bairsin, Dame Philibet Magin, and passed her qualifying examinations at the College of Surgery École de Chirurgie. [2]