Filling the Gap, Making a Profession: Midwives, State Control and Medical Care in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wallachia

Nicoleta Roman ()
Additional contact information
Nicoleta Roman: “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History–Romanian Academy & New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study

Chapter Chapter 3 in Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective, 2022, pp 83-122 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract An integrated part of nowadays Romania, Wallachia was a former principality under Ottoman suzerainty until 1877. A peripheral and a borderland province with an autonomous status, it witnessed various immigration waves that became more visible after the Treaty of Adrianople (1829), an event considered as highly significant for the economic advancement of Southeast Europe. Within this context, the present chapter explores the role of foreign midwives as agents of medicalization and as an inspirational pressure factor in the development of a national school of midwifery. The text tackles their socio-professional profile, their strategies of integration as well as their relation with the local midwives and doctors. Their institutional inclusion within the Romanian medical network and their gradual replacement by the new graduates of the Romanian midwifery school argue for a State intermediated acculturation process.

Keywords: Nineteenth-century; Southeastern Europe; Ottoman Empire; Romania; Women; Midwives; Labour; Migration; Professionalization; Identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-99554-6_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783030995546

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_3

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().