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Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine
There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives. Then societal changes in attitudes toward women and the practice of medicine made birthing a province of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Artifacts and the Cultural Construction of Birth
- Stones and Stools: An Early History of Birth Chairs and the Practice of Delivery
- Curse or Cure?: The Rise of Professional Medicine, the Redefinition of Birth, and the Move from Chair to Bed for Delivery
- Contest and Compromise: The Debate over the Philosophy of Birth, the Return of the Birth Chair, and the Struggle for Ownership
- Belief, Artifacts, and the Cultural Construction of Medicine
- Appendix: Museums and Archives with Birth Chairs in Their Collections
- Bibliography
- Index
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- D
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- F
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- H
- I
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- M
- N
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