Moașele diplomate din Transilvania anului 1875
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Abstract: The enactment of the Sanitary Regulation in 1770 and the subsequent attempts to organise a health system designed to fulfil the needs of the population even in times of normality and not just in times of crisis, entailed the emergence of a network of health services which, right from the very beginning, emphasised the formation of a professional category playing an active role in the communities: midwives. In this article, the focus is on the exploration of this emerging professional segment in 1875, based on a health statistic produced by the Hungarian authorities shortly before the implementation of the 1876 Health Act. According to our knowledge it is the first of this reports that also captures the category of midwives for historical Transylvania. The data provided by the source allow both the socio-demographic characteristics of this professional category as well as an overview of the spread of medical provision of this type in the province. This work also offers a diachronic perspective on the act of medicalization of childbirth in Transylvania.
Keywords: midwives, Transylvania, childbirth, health policies, medicalization
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