[The enlightenment on pregnancy and birth in the 16th century]

The enlightenment of people on pregnancy and childbirth is not just a contemporary phenomena. Henrik Smiths laegebog (Manual of Medicine) from 1557 is part of a tradition of communication and education going from antiquity to the present day. This book not only tells us the gynecological and obstetrical knowledge of a period, but is also an exciting reflexion of the perception of the same historical periods' view on gender, body and sexuality.