LETTER FROM A MAN-MIDWIFE.

A Letter from America

medical schools in the United States make adequate provision for instruction in this branch of medicine. Even where some provision is made for systematic lectures and demonstrations, the clinical facilities are apt to be somewhat restricted, and very frequently the only clinical material is that of the nearest hospital for mental disorders (" asylums " in the older terminology). Such cases have...

Points from a Letter

What Is a Good Midwife ?

Objective. To review the literature around what is considered to be a good midwife and in particular what women value in a midwife, in order to identify the gaps in the evidence for future research. Design. This paper reviews the research in the area of interest over the past 30 years. The literature search focused on the concept of good midwife using synonyms and antonyms. The inclusion criter...

Metropolitan medicine and the man-midwife: the early life and letters of Charles Locock.

Charles Locock and his times CHARLES later Sir Charles Locock (1799-1875), the son of a Northampton physician, aspired early to his father's profession. His wish, however, was soon to combine this conventional aspiration with the incipient specialist's role that, in bare outline, was taking shape in the 1820s and 1830s.' Buttressing this view of Locock, and spanning more than two decades of his...

A Letter from the Presidents

Hello and welcome to the first edition of the bimonthly STIMulus Newsletter. STIM (Students for Technology In Medicine) is a new student interest group dedicated to all things tech in medicine. One of our primary goals is to educate ourselves and our peers about all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of medical bio-tech, and come together to discuss the incredible advances that are...