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Telling Tales of Death in Childbirth: The Interface between Fiction and Medical Treatises in Early Modern France

Valerie Worth-Stylianou

Pages 325-340 | Published online: 01 Dec 2006

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¹All translations from the French, unless otherwise stated, are by the author.

²See Berriot-Salvadore Citation1993, McTavish Citation2005, Tucker Citation2003 and Worth-Stylianou Citationforthcoming.

³ See Darmon Citation1981 and Pinto-Correia Citation1997.

⁴ See Gélis Citation1984 and Gélis Citation1988 for France, and Wilson Citation1995 for England.

⁵ See Worth-Stylianou forthcoming, chs 2 and 3.

⁶ The explicit link between translations of the Bible into French and the diffusion of medical works in French is made in 1579 by the (Protestant) surgeon Cabrol in his defence of his friend Laurent Joubert's controversial Erreurs populaires of 1578. See Cabrol's letter in Joubert Citation1989.

⁷ See Perkins Citation1996, and the introduction by François Rouget and Colette Winn in Bourgeois Citation2000.

⁸ Both texts are reproduced in Bourgeois Citation2000.

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