Secrets to Patents

The journal Current Research in Digital History has recently released a new article by the Secrets to Patents PI, Natacha Klein Käfer, on the shifts in German midwifery texts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century that can be detected using digital tools. The article points to evidence of how midwifery and the act of giving birth were perceived as public or private practice through how midwives were instructed and regulated in manuals, ordinances, and spiritual guidance books.

The article is open access, and can be found on the journal’s website.