The Curse of Eve. How Childbirth Happened in Ancient Times: From Giving Birth in the Field to Infants in the Oven

Childbirth has always been a special event, and throughout time there have been people who helped children come into the world. The book by Diana Yumakaeva, an obstetrician-gynecologist and author of a blog on the history of medicine, will tell you how obstetrics originated and developed. On its pages, you will find great discoveries, meet the doctors of the past, incredible stories related to pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as quite strange superstitions that existed in ancient times. You will learn when anesthesia and antiseptics were first used in childbirth, how ancient Egyptian women preferred to give birth, why breastfeeding mothers were invited into aristocratic families, and whose sad story of motherhood inspired one of Agatha Christie's novels.