Published : 2025-05-28

Midwives’ Profession in the Light of the Regulations in Force in the Second Republic of Poland: An Outline of the Problem

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The article presents the issue of practicing the profession of midwife (obstetrix) in the territory of the Second Polish Republic. The text therefore analyzes Russian, Austrian and Prussian legislation, which was inherited by the reborn Polish state in 1918. Post-partition regulations were in force in the territory of the Second Polish Republic until unification, which took place only in the second half of the 1920s. The aim of the article is to present the regulations concerning the profession of midwife, which were in force in the years 1918-1939. For this purpose, the author of the publication analyzed not only the content of official journals, but also the professional and socio-political press, in order to show the broader context of the problem.

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midwife, health care profession, Russian partition, Austrian partition, Prussian partition, Second Polish Republic, unification



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Roczniki Nauk Prawnych · ISSN 1507-7896 | eISSN 2544-5227 | DOI: 10.18290/rnp

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