June 1, 2024Medical Humanities

The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms

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Victorian pregnancy calendars structured human gestation into discrete stages, mediating between bodily experience and clinical management.
Historical analysis reveals printed formats including columnar reckoning tables and circular periodoscopes were widely circulated in Europe.
These print tools functioned as instruments of medical control while simultaneously granting women practical agency to manage reproductive bodies.

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Historical print analysis reveals Victorian pregnancy calendars structured gestational timelines, highlighting dual roles in clinical control and female agency.

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Leighton et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e66dd2b6db6435875f9372 https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012841

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Historical print analysis reveals Victorian pregnancy calendars structured gestational timelines, highlighting dual roles in clinical control and female agency.

The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms

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The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms

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