In the late 18th century midwifery became a job for men and not just for women. But these male midwifes were still treated with suspicion. In the next of her series on the medical history of childbirth, Claudia Hammond went to speak to the medical historian Ornella Moscucci and Dr Lesley Hall, archivist at the Wellcome Library in London. Lesley showed Claudia a rather curious 1783 painting by the illustrator Isaac Cruikshank depicting a half-man, half–woman midwife.
