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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clarke, Alison (Alison Jane), 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2012.
©2012
Subjects:
1800-1899
1800-talet
Childbirth > New Zealand > History > 19th century.
Childbirth > Social aspects > New Zealand.
Infants > Care > New Zealand > History > 19th century.
Natural Childbirth > history
Infant Care > history
Maternal Death > history
Social Conditions > history
History, 19th Century
Nourrissons > Soins > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Childbirth
Childbirth > Social aspects
Infants > Care
Whānau (Wāhine)
Barnafödande > historia.
Maori (folk)
New Zealand
History
Pēpē
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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