📚 Midwives

Books with midwives on their catalogue record, first published between 1766 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject midwives in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,455 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Textbook for midwives	Margaret F. Myles	1956	13
	A compendious system of midwifery	William P. Dewees	1824	11
	Mainstreaming midwives	Robbie Davis-Floyd	2005	10
	Childbirth in the Global Village	Dawn Hillier	2003	9
	A short textbook of midwifery	G. F. Gibberd	1944	8
	The art of midwifery	Hilary Marland	1994	8
	Hints to husbands	George Morant	1857	7
	Spiritual midwifery	Ina May Gaskin	1975	7
	Exemplary research for nursing and midwifery	Anne Marie Rafferty	2002	7
	A practical treatise on midwifery	Robert Collins	1835	5
	A concise textbook for midwives	Douglas George Wilson Clyne	1963	5
	Birth reborn	Michel Odent	1984	5
	Heart & hands	Elizabeth Davis	1987	5
	A midwife's tale	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	1990	5
	Varney's midwifery	Helen Varney	1997	5
	Midwife's Tale	Billie Hunter	2013	5
	L'art d'accoucher réduit à ses principes, où l'on expose les pratiques les plus sûres & les plus usitées dans les différentes especes d'accouchemens, avec l'histoire sommaire de l'	Jean Astruc	1766	4
	Moi, Adeline accoucheuse	Adeline Favre	1982	4
	Doulas	Susan Ross	2012	4
	Letters to the midwife	Jennifer Worth	2014	4
	Hard Pushed	Leah Hazard	2019	4
	A sermon	Moses Noyes	1785	3
	A guide to midwifery	Elizabeth Davis	1981	3
	Myles textbook for midwives	Margaret F. Myles	1989	3
	Born in Zion	Carol Balizet	1992	3
	Midwifery	Pauline McCall Sellers	1993	3
	Baby Catcher	Peggy Vincent	2002	3
	Monique and the Mango Rains	Kris Holloway	2006	3
	Your best birth	Ricki Lake	2009	3
	The midwife	Jennifer Worth	2009	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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