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Born to a changing world : childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand /

"Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this remarkable book tell a new story of life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Before the Plunket Society, before antibiotics, before 'safe' Caesarean sections and registered midwives, nineteenth century birthing practice in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clarke, Alison (Alison Jane), 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2012.
©2012
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Open air and the Whare Kōhanga: Māori birth ways
  • 2. Lying in: Pākehā birth ways
  • 3. 'Destitute and ailing': giving birth in hospital
  • 4. 'What beautiful children these are!': clothing the baby
  • 5. From wet nursing to condensed milk: changes in infant feeding
  • 6. Christening, churching and circumcision: the religious rituals of childbirth
  • 7. 'The angel of death was waiting for them': maternal illness and death
  • 8. 'She has no baby now to call her mother' : infant death
  • Appendix: Court cases.