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Pushing in silence : modernizing Puerto Rico and the medicalization of childbirth /
As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical education, new medical technologies, and a new faith in science radically redefined childbirth and its p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stage one : midwife-assisted homebirths, 1948/1953
- Stage two : transitioning toward hospital births, 1954/1958
- Stage three : physician-assisted hospital births, 1959/1965
- Stage four : medicalized births, 1966/1979
- Stage five : a technocratic, litigation-based model of birth and novoparteras, 1980/2000
- Conclusion and epilogue.