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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leavitt, Judith Walzer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : men matter
  • Alone among strangers : the medicalization of childbirth
  • Keeping vigil : fathers in waiting rooms
  • The best backrubber : fathers move into labor rooms
  • He wants to know : prenatal education for fathers
  • Peaceful and confident : mothers and fathers in labor rooms
  • Side by side : men move into delivery rooms
  • We did it : together in delivery and birthing rooms
  • Epilogue : expectant fathers' expectations.