Ethnopharmacology in the History of Traditional Midwifery and Obstetrics in Inland Croatia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dubravko Habek
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
History Of

AbstractOur review of the history of midwifery, obstetrics and gynecology in inland and coastal areas in northeast Croatia revealed a rich body of data on the use of ethnopharmacology in folklore traditional and approbated midwifery and obstetrics from the 18th to the 20th century. In this study, 42 plants, 4 animal preparations and 1 mineral preparation were presented in an approach to women's health during the history of obstetrics and midwifery.

Not Just Bones, Organs, and Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-198
Author(s):  
Kelly Underman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Women's Health Movement ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Professional Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Women’S Health Movement

This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior to the intervention of the Women’s Health Movement, this exam serves as an interesting example to tease out threads of patient empowerment and professional authority. Patient empowerment is conceptualized as a technology comprised of discourses, knowledges, and practices that constitute patients as “partners”: fully informed subjects who are responsible for and obligated to participate in the maintenance of their own health.

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