1. Reproductive Objects
Scottie Buehler, Margaret Carlyle
2. “Absolute Necessity”: The Discovery of the Fetal Heartbeat with the Stethoscope, and Its Impact on Obstetric Practice in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1820–1840
Caroline Avery
3. Constructing Centimeters: Emanuel Friedman’s Cervimeter and the Dilatation-Time Curve
Rebecca L. Jackson
4. The Midwife’s Bag: Tracing the Objects of Professional Identity in Post-Unification Italy
Jennifer Kosmin
5. Internal Rotation(s): Sociomaterial Practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim’s Experiments on Birth Mechanics
Martina Schlünder
6. High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Whitney Wood, Danielle Cossey-Sutton
7. “Sometimes the Yoni Is Like a Jasmine Flower”: The Vayattati’s Hands in Twentieth-Century Kerala
Aparna Nair
8. “Other Things and Apparatuses”: Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre-Roe South Carolina
Cara Delay, Madeleine Ware, Beth Sundstrom
9. (Re)producing Reproduction: Obstetrical Training Models and Methods, 1880–1900
Jessica M. Dandona
10. Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)
Paula DeVos
11. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 by Elizabeth A. Williams (review)
Elsa Richardson



