obstetrics

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The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.

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He had the high degree of courage so common in the human race, a race capable of conceiving death, yet able to face its probability daily, on the highway, on the obstetrics table, on the battlefield, in the air, in the subway-and to face lightheartedly the certainty of death in the end. Robert A. Heinlein

Drife, J., “The start of life: a history of obstetrics,” Postgraduate Medical Journal 78 (2002): 311-315, accessed May 21, 2012. Source: Internet

For example, teaching of anatomy was a part of the teaching of surgery, embryology was a part of training in pediatrics and obstetrics, and the knowledge of physiology and pathology was interwoven in the teaching of all the clinical disciplines. Source: Internet

Boston: Northern University Press, 1991: 130. Men were introduced into the field of obstetrics in the nineteenth century and resulted in a change of the focus of this profession. Source: Internet

So we have to make some mitigations ahead of that which we know are safe," said Dr. Colin Birch, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology for the Calgary zone. Source: Internet

In many areas, the specialities of gynaecology and obstetrics overlap. Source: Internet

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