| Description |
xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies / Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty -- 1. Establishing the Scope of Practice: Organizing European Midwifery in the Inter-War Years 1919-1938 / Anne Thompson -- 2. Swedish Midwives and their Instruments in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Christina Romlid -- 3. How to be a Midwife in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain / Teresa Ortiz and Clara Martinez Padilla -- 4. Rosalind Paget: The Midwife, the Women's Movement and Reform Before 1914 / June Hannam -- 5. The 'Antiseptic' Transformation of Danish Midwives, 1860-1920 / Anne Lokke -- 6. State Control in Local Context: Public Health and Midwife Regulation in Manchester, 1900-1914 / Joan Mottram -- 7. The Midwife as Health Missionary: The Reform of Dutch Childbirth Practices in the Early Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland -- 8. Midwives and the Quality Maternal Care / Irvine Loudon |
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9. The End of Home Births in the German Language Islands of Northern Italy / Christoph Brezinka -- 10. Midwifery and Medicine: Gendered Knowledge in the Practice of Delivery / Susan Pitt -- 11. The Controlling Power of Childbirth in Britain / Jan Williams -- 12. Midwives Among the Machines: Re-Creating Midwifery in the Late Twentieth Century / Raymond G. DeVries and Rebecca Barroso |
| Summary |
Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in 20th century |
| Notes |
2000 reprint |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Midwifery -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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Midwifery -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Midwifery -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Midwifery -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Midwifery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Midwifery -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Midwifery -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
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United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
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United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Marland, Hilary.
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Rafferty, Anne Marie.
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| LC no. |
96041125 |
| ISBN |
0415133289 |
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