📚 Midwifery

Birth attended by hand and judgement: the practice, its history, and its long argument with the hospital.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject midwifery in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery	Hamilton, Alexander	1784	18
	The principles of midwifery	John Burns	1809	18
	The midwife's labour and birth handbook	Vicky Chapman	2008	15
	Textbook for midwives	Margaret F. Myles	1956	13
	Call the Midwife	Jennifer Worth	2002	13
	A compendious system of midwifery	William P. Dewees	1824	11
	Lehrbuch der Hebammenkunst	Bernhard Sigmund Schultze	1864	10
	A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery	W. S. Playfair	1876	10
	The science and art of midwifery	William Thompson Lusk	1885	9
	A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery	P. Cazeaux	1850	8
	Pictorial midwifery	Comyns Berkeley	1939	8
	Spiritual midwifery	Ina May Gaskin	1975	8
	Becoming a Midwife	Rosemary Mander	2009	8
	Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery Research	Lisa McKenna	2019	8
	The principles of midwifery	John Burns	1810	7
	Midwifery illustrated	J. P. Maygrier	1833	7
	A manual of midwifery	Eden, Thomas Watts	1908	7
	Immaculate deception	Suzanne Arms	1975	7
	Home Birth	Alice Gilgoff	1978	7
	Postnatal Neonatal Midwifery Skills	Alison Edwards	2012	7
	Antenatal Midwifery Skills	Alison Edwards	2012	7
	Qualitative Research in Midwifery and Childbirth	Gill Thomson	2011	6
	Rapid Midwifery	Sarah Snow	2016	6
	Waterbirth Stories	Maria Paz Miranda	2019	6
	Facilitating Learning in Practice	Dawn A. Morley	2019	6
	An introduction to the practice of midwifery	Thomas Denman	1794	5
	A practical treatise on midwifery	Robert Collins	1835	5
	Cases in midwifery	John Green Crosse	1851	5
	On the theory and practice of midwifery	Churchill, Fleetwood	1854	5
	A system of midwifery	William Leishman	1873	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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