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(Norman Obstetrics and Gynecology Series. No. 3.) Revised second edition of Iconographia Gyniatrica. By Harold Speert. 540 pp., illustrated. San Francisco, Norman, 1994. $245. ISBN 0-930405-62-5.

"The history of obstetrics and gynecology has been written in painting, pottery, parchment, paper, and plaster, rock drawings, wood carvings, coins, tapestries, mosaics, gravestones, and sculpture," writes Harold Speert, and indeed his new book reproduces much of this iconography. A revised edition of his Iconographia Gyniatrica, which was first published in 1973, Obstetrics and Gynecology is a lavishly illustrated (and therefore quite expensive) history of the field. Any good review, therefore, needs to consider both the illustrations and the historical argument.

Speert notes in his preface that obstetrical and gynecologic artifacts and pictures are the main focus of his interest. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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