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Make room for daddy : the journey from waiting room to birthing room /
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews, along with hospital records and medical literature, this book offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. It shows how, as men moved first from the hospital wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews, along with hospital records and medical literature, this book offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. It shows how, as men moved first from the hospital waiting room to the labour room in the 1960s, and then on to the delivery and birthing rooms in the 1970s and 1980s, they became progressively more involved in the birth experience and their influence over events expanded. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-365) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807887837 0807887838 9781469605616 1469605619 |