See also:

• Health: Nursing: History  (100)
• Society: History: By Topic: Science: Medicine  (95)
• Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Health  (8)

• About Midwives and Midwifery - A collection of net links on the history of midwives and midwifery, from About.com.
• Biography of Mary Breckinridge - Regarded as the first to bring nurse+midwifery to the United States and founder of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. Includes photographs, illustrations and a list of further reading.
• A Brief History of Midwifery - Offers a general UK timeline from ancient times through to 1992. Features prominent obstetric figures, practices and laws and includes a bibliography.
• Contributions by the Midwives of Antiquity to the Art and Science of Modern Medicine - Article which lists and gives brief descriptions of notable practitioners from ancient through to new world times. Also details the changeable attitudes towards the profession.
• Delivering Childbirth + The Orlando Project - Paper which researches novels written by women during the 18th century on the subject. Compares the realities with the way in which writings of the time presented the experience.
• The History of Midwifery and Childbirth + A Time Line - Offers a time line of childbirth and midwifery in America. Includes further links to books of interest and organizations mentioned within.
• A History of Midwifery in North Carolina - A general timeline of important dates, statistics and legislation passed by the state.
• Kate Sheppard Midwifery + History of Midwifery - Features a brief general overview as well as focusing on New Zealand's past to the recent present.
• Midwifery in Wisconsin - Covers the period from 1850 + 1905. Describes general practices and includes a list for further reading.
• Royal College Of Midwives: History - Details the roots, challenges and emergence of the RCM in the UK from 1881 to the present day.
• Who Was Martha Ballard? - Explores the diary of a midwife from the Massachusetts town of Oxford between the years of 1785 until 1813. Includes extracts, stories, themes and a search function.