Diet, nutrition, regimen: Food and healthcare in 18th-century British midwifery (Panel Health and well-being as seen through food and nutrition discourse(s): Past and present perspectives)

The general aim of this contribution is a historical and diachronic linguistic analysis of a corpus of works on 18th-c. British midwifery in order to examine and highlight the role of food and healthcare for women and children as it emerges from medical writing. The works selected for the corpus include a variety of text types (e.g. instruction manuals and family books, textbooks, treatises, etc.) and were originally published in English between 1701 and 1800 by contemporary authors.