Thiele, A. (n.d.). Ancient Egyptian Midwifery and Childbirth. EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato.

• Brief summary
  

Thompson, J. (2005, November). Health - Greek Approach to Women's Illness, Pregnancy and Childbirth. Women in the Ancient World.

• Very brief summary of women's health and fertility and related practices in ancient Greece.

International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) (open access archive, no discrete URL for the journal, accessed via society homepage):
Vesalius

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (open access archives at PubMed):
Medical History Medical History, Supplement

Online

• Jones, C. (n.d.). Ancient Medicine Online. AWOL - The Ancient World Online.
• Thiele, A. (n.d.). Ancient Egyptian Midwifery and Childbirth. EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato.
• Thompson, J. (2005, November). Health - Greek Approach to Women's Illness, Pregnancy and Childbirth. Women in the Ancient World.

Print

• Hirt Raj, M. (2006). Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine : étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C. Geneva.
• Jouanna, J. (2004). Médecine égyptienne et médecine grecque. In La médecine grecque antique, Cahiers de la Villa Kérylos (Vol. 15, pp. 1-21). Presented at the 14e colloque de la villa Kérylos à Beaulieu-sur-Mer, les 10 & 11 octobre 2003, Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres/de Boccard.
• Marganne, M. (1996). La médecine dans l'Egypte romaine : les sources et les méthodes. Aufsteig und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, 37(3), 2709-2740.
• Spieser, C. (2003). Femmes et divinités enceintes dans l'Egypte du Nouvel Empire. In Naissance et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité, collection Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (pp. 69-92). Presented at the colloque de Fribourg, 28 novembre-1er décembre 2001, Fribourg: Éditions St-Paul- Ruprecht Verlag.

Childbirth

Reproduction, childbirth, rituals in Egypt and Greece

Hansen, N. (2007, May). Motherhood in the mother of the world: Continuity and change of reproductive concepts and practices in Egypt from ancient to modern times (PhD Dissertation). University of Chicago.

Chamberlain, G. (n.d.). Historical perspectives on health: Childbirth in Ancient Egypt -- Chamberlain 124 (6): 284 -- The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. Retrieved March 11, 2008

Wise, S. (2008, February). Childbirth votives and rituals in ancient Greece (PhD Dissertation). University of Cincinnati.
Easton, Y. (2007, November). Gendered conceptions: Reproductions of pregnancy and childbirth in Greek literature (PhD Dissertation). University of Washington.

Cesarean Section

Barrat, J. (1988). The history of cesarean section. Its implications in current obstetrical management. Revue française de gynécologie et d'obstétrique, 83(4), 225-230.

Boley, J. (1991). The history of caesarean section. Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 145(4), 319-322.

Lurie, S. (2005). The changing motives of cesarean section: from the ancient world to the twenty-first century. Archives of gynecology and obstetrics, 271(4), 281-285.

Induction

York, R. (1984). The history of induction. Midwife, health visitor & community nurse, 20(4), 109-116.

Death in Childbirth

Andrews, C. (1984). Egyptian Mummies. Trustees of the British Museum introductory series (US Edition.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

• pp. 66-67, Maatkare, d. of HP Pinudjem I (c. 1050) "God's Wife of Amun" celibate appointment, however, examination of her body shows she died either during or shortly after childbirth

• p. 100, Maatkare and baby: breasts enlarged due to lactation (but if died in CB would be large - last trmstr)

Some related web materials

History of Nursing

• History of Nursing (UIC Library)
• American Association for the History of Nursing:
  AAHN Abstracts
• UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery (UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery - University of Manchester)
  Online Publications
  
• AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Ancient Medicine Online
• Ancient Medicine Online
• BMA AMN (Bulletin de Médecine Ancienne - Ancient Medicine Newsletter)
• Nursing History
  (Removed dead VCU History of Nursing link 7/26/11)
  

Women's Health, especially childbirth related

• Women in Ancient Egypt: Childbirth
• Archaeologists uncover 3700-year-old 'magical' birth brick in Egypt
• Women in the Ancient World:
• Health - Greek Approach to Women's Illness, Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Ancient Egyptian Midwifery and Childbirth
• Ancient Egyptian Sexuality
• Egypt: Childbirth and Children in Ancient Egypt, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
• Catalogue General Antiquites Egyptiennes du Musee du Caire: The Royal Mummies
  The Royal Mummies, Page LXXII
• Historical perspectives on health: Childbirth in Ancient Egypt -- Chamberlain 124 (6): 284 -- The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
• ACLS Humanities E-Book: Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
  

Egypt

• The Deir el-Medîna Database
• DeM-online

I've started this blog as a means of compiling materials for the study of a range of healthcare topics in the ancient world. The issues I'm chiefly interested in pursuing (for what it's worth, since the information is patchy and varied) relate to nursing care, midwifery and maternity care, care of the elderly as well as narrower topics such as the possibility of cesarean section in the premodern world. I'm hoping that by compiling material here (distilled from the meanderings I currently accumulate in zotero) that a clearer picture will emerge, allowing me to go forward with something more focused and intelligible. I hope I will in fact actually be able to make a meaningful contribution to knowledge.
My initial caveat then is that to start with this will be somewhat imprecise, so please bear with me. Should anyone feel inclined to read or look over what I'm doing and has comments or suggestions, I would be most grateful to receive them.