Peter Chamberlen

01 January 1601 - 01 January 1683

Standard Name: Chamberlen, Peter,, 1601 - 1683

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Occupation	Hester Shaw	She was practising midwifery in London by about 1610, and probably received her licence from the bishop of London not long afterwards. In 1634 she was chosen joint leader of a group of sixty midwives...
Textual Production	Hester Shaw	In the same year that man-midwife Peter Chamberlen sought to form a corporation of midwives under his own control, HS and a colleague, Mrs Whipp, headed a deputation to present a petition against him. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that name) attempted to form a corporation of midwives with himself as governor; he did not succeed.

Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.

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Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.

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Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.

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