Title The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital : a history / Linda Bryder

Published Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Childbirth services in New Zealand, 1900-1939 -- National Women's Hospital and the Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology -- A tripod: patient care, research and teaching, the 1950s to 1963 -- A woman's world: mothers, nurses and midwives at National Women's, the 1950s to 1963 -- From premature nursery to paediatric department, 1950s to 1963 -- A bright new age: advances in reproductive medicine, 1964-1980s -- The new patient and perinatal medicine -- Contraception, sterilisation and abortion -- Obstetrics and the winds of change, 1964-1980s -- Feminists, midwives and National Women's hospital -- Hospital in trouble, 1990-2004 Summary In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Women's Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in 20th-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in, artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, sterilization and abortion: women's health and reproduction went through a revolution in the 20th century as scientific advances confronted ethical and political dilemmas. In New Zealand, the major site for this revolution was National Women's Hospital. Established in Auckland in 1946, with a purpose-built building that opened in 1964, National Women's was the home of medical breakthroughs scandals. This chronicle covers them all Notes "In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the rise and fall of National Women's over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups and patients to show how together their dialogue shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in twentieth-century New Zealand"--Publisher information Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject National Women's Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.) -- History SUBJECT National Women's Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.) National Women's Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.) fast (OCoLC)fst00599906 National Women's Hospital Auckland gnd Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Deutschland Krankenhaus Grimmen gnd Subject Women's health services -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century Women's health services -- Moral and ethical aspects -- New Zealand Women's Health -- history Hospitals, Maternity -- history Women's Health Services -- history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Women's health services. Women's health services -- Moral and ethical aspects. Gynäkologie SUBJECT New Zealand Subject New Zealand. Neuseeland Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781775587262 1775587266 9781775587248 177558724X

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