Bibliographic record
Abstract
Justine Siegemund, The Court Midwife , ed. and trans. Lynne Tatlock, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 283. $24.00 (pbk). ISBN 0–226–75709–9. Lynne Tatlock, a professor of German, has produced an important and fully documented translation of the midwifery manual by Justine Siegemund. Born in Rohnstock in 1636, Siegemund was the first German midwife to write such a treatise. Although not without controversy, the book was generally well received when it was first published in 1690, appearing in seven subsequent editions during the early modern period. Tatlock's English translation of Siegemund's work contributes to the expanding scholarship on the history of midwifery and childbirth. Scholars already have access to publications by English midwives such as Jane Sharp (1671) and Sarah Stone (1737), as well as translations into English of the memoirs of the Frisian midwife Catharina Schrader (1693–1745), and the treatise by Anna Horenburg, first published in Wolfenbüttel in 1700. Books written by French women have yet to be translated but a modern version of the 1652 edition of the famous obstetrical treatise by royal midwife Louise Bourgeois is now available.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".