In order to put a painful past and a terrible sense of guilt behind her, a sterile young woman named Mathilde (played by Nastassja Kinski) uses extreme cloning methods to give birth to Manon (Audrey DeWilder), and is comforted by her obstetrician husband Thomas (Christopher Lambert).
Growing up, her family lived in Mt. Lebanon and Wexford before settling in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania where her mother, Vasanti Majumdar, an obstetrician/gynecologist out of UPMC Passavant, still lives.
Afterwards, he studied medicine with surgeon August Gottlieb Richter (1742-1812) and obstetrician Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759-1822) at the University of Göttingen, subsequently receiving his doctorate in 1799 at Helmstedt.
Alfred Dührssen (March 23, 1862 - October 11, 1933) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein.
Antoine Louis Dugès (December 19, 1797 – May 1, 1838) was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes.
Croft was the grandson of Reverend Richard Croft, third son of Dr. Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet, of Croft Castle.
Bernhard Seyfert (1817, Drum, a town in northern Bohemia – 7 May 1870) was an Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist.
Eduardo Porro (1842–1902) was an Italian obstetrician.
Dr Pinnaduwage Ariyaratne De Silva, OBE, FRCOG, FCOG, FRCS, FRCP - formerly Consultant Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Sri Lanka, laterly Consultant Physician, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals (NHS Trust), West Yorkshire.
Fernando Magalhães (February 18, 1878 – January 10, 1944) was a Brazilian obstetrician who was twice President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
In 1670, English obstetrician Hugh Chamberlen tried to sell the secret of a specialized obstetrical forceps to Mauriceau.
Heinz Küstner (1897 — 1963) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who helped develop the Prausnitz-Küstner test while an assistant of Otto Prausnitz.
Hilda Mary Lazarus B.A., MBBS, FRCS (b: 1890 - d: 1978) was Christian missionary and popular Gynecologist and Obstetrician in India.
They include key historical texts by authors including Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius and William Harvey, as well as the writings of Hunter's contemporaries, such as William Smellie, Albinus and Albrecht von Haller.
In 1942, Childbirth without Fear was published; it was a book written by English obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read and French obstetrician Michel Odent, that introduced the idea of using hypnotherapy for childbirth.
Franz Breit, (1843?)–1847 (except July 1, 1846 – Oct 20, 1846, where Semmelweis was Assistent)
Johann Lucas Boër (April 20, 1751, Uffenheim, Grafschaft Ansbach – January 19, 1835, Alsergrund), originally Johann Lucas Boogers (sometimes spelled Rogers Lucas Johann Boër) was a German medical doctor and obstetrician.
He later became an obstetrician-gynecologist in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Karl Kaspar von Siebold (November 4, 1736 – April 3, 1807) was a German surgeon and obstetrician who was a native of Nideggen.
In 2008, O'Brien played Marie, a nurse, in the award-winning television drama, Whistleblower, based on actual events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth in the 1990s, where Michael Neary, an Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist, was struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners for professional misconduct relating to the performance of caesarian hysterectomies.
The Lamaze technique, often referred to simply as Lamaze, is a prepared childbirth technique developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Fernand Lamaze as an alternative to the use of medical intervention during childbirth.
Leonardo Gigli (30 April 1863, Sesto Fiorentino – 4 April 1908, Florence) was an Italian surgeon and obstetrician remembered for describing Gigli's operation, and for designing the Gigli saw to simplify its performance.
Meigs was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward Browning Meigs and Margaret Wister Meigs, and grew up in Washington, D.C. Her great-great-grandfather was the famous obstetrician Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs, and her great-granduncle was Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army during the American Civil War.
Joseph McGahn (c.1917–1999), American obstetrician and politician
Michael L. Brodman, M.D. is an American gynecologist and obstetrician and currently the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman’s Chair and Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
George Pinker (1924-2007), British obstetrician and gynecologist
Following on from Leboyer, another French obstetrician, Michel Odent (born 1930), pioneered the practice of low intervention labour and took the "Leboyer bath" one step further, developing the use of warm-water pools for a water birth.
Mapalagama Liyanage Neville Kingsley Pierre De Silva ( Professor Kingsley De Silva) 'born on October 26, 1932 in Kandana, Sri Lanka, was one of the leading Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Sri Lanka
When Kansas obstetrician George Tiller was murdered while serving as an usher in his Wichita church on the morning of May 31, 2009, Terry immediately issued a statement critical of Tiller.
Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels (1821 - 1891), a Bohemia-born German gynecologist and obstetrician
Marcus Setchell (born 1943), a leading British obstetrician and gynecologist
John Whitridge Williams (1866–1931), American obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital