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Trudy Witt – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In August 1767 King Louis XV of France appointed Madame du Coudray, a 52-year-old midwife, to teach midwifery "throughout the whole extent of the Realm." In so doing he acknowledged the "science and experience" and "high degree of perfection" that she had obtained in midwifery. Over the next 20 years Madame du Coudray…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology, Scientific Literacy