Editing Midwifery (section)

===Post-classical history===
[[File:"Dr. William Hunter at a confinement" Wellcome L0015724.jpg|alt=A man looking through a gap between curtains, a chest with medicines to right.|thumb|421x421px|18th-century etching of [[William Hunter (anatomist)|William Hunter]] attending a pregnant woman. The caption notes that "not until a strenuous fight with the midwives was it customary for obstetricians to be present at confinements."]]
{{main|Midwifery in the Middle Ages}}
<ref>Medical practitioners were subjected to more regulation in the Middle Ages, especially women that had not received proper schooling in their desired medical fields. Although the medical field was becoming a male monopoly with these regulations, midwifery was still dominated by women, as men had not had schooling or education in obstetrics.</ref><ref name="Minkowski">{{cite journal|last1=Minkowski|first1=W L|title=Women healers of the middle ages: selected aspects of their history|journal=American Journal of Public Health|date=February 1992|volume=82|issue=2|pages=292–293|doi=10.2105/ajph.82.2.288|pmid=1739168|pmc=1694293}}</ref>