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Lying-in : a history of childbirth in America /

This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home birth movement of the 1980s. Widely praised when it was first published in 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wertz, Richard W.
Other Authors: Wertz, Dorothy C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1989.
Edition:Expanded ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo