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

In: Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

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  • Nicoleta Roman

    (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History–Romanian Academy & New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study)

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.

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  • Nicoleta Roman, 2022. "Filling the Gap, Making a Profession: Midwives, State Control and Medical Care in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wallachia," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (ed.), Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective, chapter 0, pages 83-122, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-99554-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_3
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