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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1989.
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| Edition: | Expanded ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Midwives and social childbirth in colonial America
- The new midwifery
- Modesty and morality
- The wounds of birth: Birthpain and puerperal fever
- Birth in the hospital
- "Natural childbirth"
- Government involvement
- Creating the perfect child: The 1980s and beyond
- Epilogue: Everybody's search for the best.