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2014 – TV drama series ANZAC Girls portrays nurses in World War I. 2014 – Thea Hayes' An Outback Nurse describes nursing at Wave Hill, Northern Territory in the 1960s. [70] 2015 – Publication of Ruth Rae's 4-volume History of Australian Nurses in the First World War. [71] 2016 – Murder of remote area nurse Gayle Woodford in APY Lands. [72]
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]
Early Modern Europe marked a period of transition within the medical world. Universities for doctors were becoming more common and standardized training was becoming a requirement. [1] During this time, a few universities were beginning to train women as midwives, [2] but rhetoric against women healers was increasing. [1]
In 1759, she published an early midwifery textbook, Abrégé de l'art des accouchements (Abridgment of the Art of Delivery), which was a revision and expansion of an earlier midwifery textbook published in 1667. [2] [4] The book was translated in many languages including German, Dutch, and English. The textbook provided Coudray’s ...
Margaret (Maggie) Fraser Myles, née Findlay, (December 1892 - February 1988) [1] was a Scottish midwife, midwifery tutor and lecturer and author.She is globally known for her Textbook for Midwives, first published in 1953, which has been considered a reference midwifery textbook for decades.
Her first edition of Memorial de l'Art des Accouchemens was published in 1812. It included notes she had taken from Marie-Louise Lachapelle's teaching, and the book was used as a handbook for medical students and midwives. [5] The third edition of Memorial de l'Art des Accouchemens was translated into several European languages.
The hospital was the first maternity hospital staffed entirely by women doctors and only women students were admitted. [1] A district midwifery service was also provided to deliver women in their own homes. [2] The hospital was renamed the Annie McCall Maternity Hospital in 1936.
Shortly after returning from the First World War, Crawford married Edward Schuster, who had proposed to her via cablegram. [3] [5] [6] They had one daughter, Mary (born 1917). [4] [6] Crawford retired in 1949, aged 65, and died at New York City's Midtown Hospital on November 25, 1972, aged 88. [4]