Janette Allotey`s Publications
Chapters in books
‘”To the midwives of England”: Jane Sharp’s Midwives Book` in Riches of the Rylands: the special collections of the University of Manchester Library. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015).
`Caesarean section: “from his mother's womb/untimely ripped”` in Great Discoveries in Medicine, ed. by William Bynum and Helen Bynum, Helen (London: Thames and Hudson, 2011).
Journal articles
`A tale of moths and mothers: is vaginal birth an evolutionary advantage or an outmoded natural function?`, European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 162-7 supplement 1 (2012).
`Mothers and midwives, 1952 – 2012` co-authored with Alison Nuttall, Margaret Lynch, Rosemary Mander, Lindsay Reid, Julia Allison, Louise Jenkins, Susan Tully, Catherine Ebenezer, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 22-2 (2012).
`English midwives’ responses to the medicalisation of childbirth (1671–1795)`, Midwifery 27-4 (2011).
`Writing midwives’ history: problems and pitfalls`, Midwifery 27-2 (2011)
`William Smellie and William Hunter accused of murder…`, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 103-5 (2010).
`History of midwifery: professional luxury or essential legacy?` co-authored with Tania McIntosh, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 19-4 (2009).
Valerie Worth`s Publications
Books
- Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France. Treatises by caring physicians and surgeons (1581-1625). Translation and critical edition of treatises by François Rousset, Jean Liebault, Jacques Guillemeau, Jacques Duval and Louis de Serres, in the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. (Toronto: Iter Press, University of Toronto, 2013).
- Les Traités d'obstétrique en langue française au seuil de la modernité. Des "Divers travaulx" d'Euchaire Rosslin" (1536) à l' "Apologie" de Louyse Bourgeois sage-femme" (1627). (Geneva: Droz, 2007).
Website
Chapters in books
- ‘Birthing tales and collective memory in recent French fiction.’ In Motherhood in Literature and Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe. Ed. G. Rye, V. Browne, A. Giorgio, E. Jeremiah, A. Lee Six (Abingdon-New York : Routledge, 2017), pp. 58-69.
- ‘Midwifery.’ In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. M. King (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/renaissance-and-reformation
- Qui assistait à un accouchement en France entre 1530 et 1630?', in Enfanter dans la France d'Ancien Régime, ed. L. Dion, A. Gargam, M. Grande and M-E. Henneau. (Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2017).
- 'Les grands domaines scientifiques: médecine et pharmacie' in Histoire des traductions en langue française: XVe et XVIe siècles (in Ch. XIII, 'Arts et Sciences', co-ordinated by V. Giacomotto-Charra), ed. V. Duché. (Paris: Editions Verdier, 2015).
- ‘La théâtralisation de la naissance du dauphin (1601) chez Louise Bourgeois, sage-femme de Marie de Médicis', in Le "Théâtral" de la France d'Ancien Régime, ed. S. Chaouche. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2010).
- ‘Whose life is it anyway? The politics of the representation of motherhood in two female-authored memoirs of the French Renaissance', in Possessions. Essays in French Literature, Cinema and Theory, ed. by J. Horn and L. Russell-Watts. (London: Peter Lang, 2003).
Journal articles
- 'Exchanges Between Medical and Literary Discourses in the French Renaissance: Comparing the Fascination with “des amas et pieces de chair informes” in Montaigne’s Essais and Joubert’s Erreurs populaires', Australian Journal of French Studies, 52-3 (2015).
- 'Concurrent Publication of Medical Works in Neo-Latin and French in Early Modern France', Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 41-4 (2014).
- ‘The definition of obscene material 1570-1615: three medical treatises held to account’, Early Modern France, 14 (2010).
- ‘Telling tales of death in childbirth: the interfaces between fiction and medical treatises in Early Modern France', Women. A Cultural Review, 17-3, (2006).
- `Les caquets de l'accouchée: la représentation de la maternité dans la littérature fictive (c. 1475-1622)', Durham Modern Languages Series, 21 (2002).
Published conference papers
- ‘"Que tout cela eust mieux esté en latin, que en François": l'emploi de la langue française dans la diffusion du savoir obstétrical au XVIe siècle en France', in Pratique et pensée médicales à la Renaissance, Colloque international d'études humanistes (Tours, 2007), ed. J. Vons. (Paris: BIUM, de Boccard, 2009).
- ‘Du parcours d'un traité d'obstétrique : les notes dans les versions françaises des Divers travaux de Rösslin (1536-1632)', in Notes. Etudes sur l'annotation en littérature, Actes du Colloque de Rouen mai 2005. (Rouen: Publications de Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2008).