| Description |
1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals Ser |
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Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Contents -- Original Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- The Plates -- Introduction -- 1 The Office of Midwife: A Female Mystery -- 2 The Decline of the Midwife -- 3 The Ascendancy of Men -- 4 The Turn of the Tide -- 5 Midwives for the Poor -- 6 Medical Men and Midwives Bills -- 7 State Register or Local Licence? -- 8 The Midwives Act, 1902 -- 9 State Certified Midwife -- 10 Has the Midwife a Future? -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Originally published in 1977 and as a second edition in 1988, this unique history of developments in midwifery will be of interest to students of medical politics, 19th Century social history, the sociology of the professions and gender studies |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000853155 |
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1000853152 |
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