ZAWÓD POŁOŻNEJ W ŚWIETLE PRZEPISÓW
OBOWIĄZUJĄCYCH W II RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ.
ZARYS PROBLEMU
MIDWIVES’ PROFESSION IN THE LIGHT OF THE REGULATIONS IN FORCE IN THE
SECOND REPUBLIC OF POLAND. AN OUTLINE OF THE PROBLEM
Author(s): WOJCIECH ADAM ŚWIĘCHSubject(s): History of Law, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: midwife; health care profession; Russian, Austrian and Prussian partition; Second Polish Republic; unification;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the issue of practicing the profession of midwife (obstetrix) in theterritory of the Second Polish Republic. The text therefore analyzes Russian, Austrian and Prus-sian legislation, which was inherited by the reborn Polish state in 1918. Post-partition regulationswere in force in the territory of the Second Polish Republic until unification, which took placeonly in the second half of the 1920s. The aim of the article is to present the regulations concern-ing the profession of midwife, which were in force in the years 1918-1939. For this purpose, theauthor of the publication analyzed not only the content of official journals, but also the profes-sional and socio-political press, in order to show the broader context of the problem.
Journal: Roczniki Nauk Prawnych
- Issue Year: 35/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 37-53
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
