Oxford Brookes Centre For Health, Medicine And Society Podcasts

If Henry VIII had hired better midwives would the course of history be changed? The evolution of midwifery and the tension between midwives and medical men are discussed by Jean Donnison, Historian of Social Policy and author, Lucy Reid, Head of Information Services at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Elizabeth Hurren, Medical Historian at Oxford Brookes University. The seventh in a series of History of Medicine podcasts from the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present.