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Reproductive Objects

Scottie Buehler, Margaret Carlyle
pp. 1-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963724
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"Absolute Necessity": The Discovery of the Fetal Heartbeat with the Stethoscope, and Its Impact on Obstetric Practice in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1820–1840

Caroline Avery
pp. 17-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963725
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Constructing Centimeters: Emanuel Friedman's Cervimeter and the Dilatation-Time Curve

Rebecca L. Jackson
pp. 51-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963726
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The Midwife's Bag: Tracing the Objects of Professional Identity in Post-Unification Italy

Jennifer Kosmin
pp. 94-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963727
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Internal Rotation(s): Sociomaterial Practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim's Experiments on Birth Mechanics

Martina Schlünder
pp. 122-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963728
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High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

Whitney Wood, Danielle Cossey-Sutton
pp. 156-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963729
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"Sometimes the Yoni Is Like a Jasmine Flower": The Vayattati's Hands in Twentieth-Century Kerala

Aparna Nair
pp. 185-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963730
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"Other Things and Apparatuses": Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre-Roe South Carolina

Cara Delay, Madeleine Ware, Beth Sundstrom
pp. 211-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963731
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(Re)producing Reproduction: Obstetrical Training Models and Methods, 1880–1900

Jessica M. Dandona
pp. 236-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963732
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Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)

Paula DeVos
pp. 274-275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963733
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Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 by Elizabeth A. Williams (review)

Elsa Richardson
pp. 276-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963734
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Sanadores, Parteras, Curanderos y Medicas: Las Artes de Curar en la Argentina moderna ed. by Diego Armus (review)

Irina Podgorny
pp. 278-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963735
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Dissection Photography: Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity by Brandon Zimmerman (review)

Jessica Leigh Hester
pp. 280-282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963736
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Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine by Peter A. Swenson (review)

Joel D. Howell
pp. 282-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963737
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Books Received

p. 285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2025.a963738
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