Ortiz Gómez T
Departamento de anatomía Patológica e Historia de la Ciencia, Universidad de Granada.
Dynamis. 1996;16:109-20.
We reviewed the bibliography on the history of midwives, and examined municipal and legislative sources, to investigate the relationship between midwives and the Protomedicato in Castile during the 16th to 18th centuries. Our thesis is that the Protomedicato exerted little control over the professional activity of midwives or over improvements made in the The Art of Attending Childbirths. Instead, it appears to have played a greater role in the professional and scientific consolidation of surgeons, by recognizing their authority in obstetric matters.
我们查阅了关于助产士历史的文献目录，并研究了市政和立法资料来源，以调查16至18世纪卡斯蒂利亚助产士与医师公会之间的关系。我们的论点是，医师公会对助产士的专业活动或《接生术》中的改进几乎没有控制权。相反，它似乎通过认可外科医生在产科事务中的权威，在外科医生的专业和科学巩固方面发挥了更大的作用。
