Dr Alana Skuse

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639 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 8 May

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You're Dead to Me · Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

Yep.

And then eventually they found them under the floorboards of this guy's house.

He buried them there to keep them safe.

Before that, if the baby got really stuck, there was basically nothing you could do.

And if you got to the point where you thought that the baby had died in the mother, the surgeon would be called in and they would use various horrible instruments, including a kind of great big hook to extract it from the woman.

Yeah, the physicians and the surgeons, they really wanted to regulate them and they kept trying to do it, but basically they never succeeded.

It wasn't actually legally required for midwives to have training until 1902.

Wow.

Yeah.

OK, so there's this big emphasis on the market.

And this is what I usually talk about, is that commercialisation is driving medical specialism and driving people to get better at medicine.

But we also have to remember that this is the birth of a lot of the public health that we now know.

So we've seen the plague and you have public health measures there.

But we also have things like welfare.

Because after the dissolution of the monasteries, the monasteries who've been looking after people, they can't do that anymore.

And there's kind of chaos for about 70 years.

And then Elizabeth, as in Elizabeth I, recognises that she needs to bring in an act for the welfare of maimed soldiers because there's so many wars.

There are so many people with disabilities coming home.

And that act gets tinkered with over the next 300 years.

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