title: [The enlightenment on pregnancy and birth in the 16th century].
abstract: The enlightenment of people on pregnancy and childbirth is not just a contemporary phenomena. Henrik Smiths laegebog (Manual of Medicine) from 1557 is part of a tradition of communication and education going from antiquity to the present day. This book not only tells us the gynecological and obstetrical knowledge of a period, but is also an exciting reflexion of the perception of the same historical periods' view on gender, body and sexuality.
authors.forename: Dorthe
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chakravarty
mesh_terms: D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006801:Humans; D036801:Parturition; D011247:Pregnancy; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*