Marie Jonet Dugès

Marie Jonet ("Madame Dugès")

Marie Jonet Dugès (1730–1797) was a French midwife.[1]

Family

Jonet Dugès' daughter, Marie Lachapelle, was also a renowned midwife.[2] From an early age, her daughter was a constant companion and assisted at births.[2] Dugès taught her everything she knew about midwifery.[2]

Career

Jonet Dugès was first a sworn midwife ("sage-femme jurée") at the Chatelet Hospital.[3] Later, in 1775, she was promoted to the position of Midwife-in-Chief of the Hôtel-Dieu.[3] She performed her duties with such zeal, ability, and faithfulness that when she retired the government awarded her a liberal pension.[3]

Legacy

Marie Jonet Dugès is remembered as one of the most significant midwives attached to the Hôtel-Dieu, and for her improvement of French midwifery.[4]

References

  1. ^ Stanley, Autumn (1993). Mothers and daughters of invention : notes for a revised history of technology. Metuchen, NJ, u.a.: Scarecrow. p. 234. ISBN 0810825864.
  2. ^ a b c Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. p. 731. ISBN 9780415920407.
  3. ^ a b c Buck, Albert Henry (1920). The dawn of modern medicine. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. p. 256.
  4. ^ van Teijlingen, Edwin, ed. (2000). Midwifery and the medicalization of childbirth: comparative perspectives. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers. p. 87. ISBN 9781560726807.