Birthing the west : mothers and midwives in the Rockies and Plains /
"Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains shows how women and mothers constructed citizens, and how public health entities usurped that role, with varied long-term impacts on women, men, families, community, and American identity"--
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Birth in the big open
- The expertise of women
- Midwives among us
- The practice of birth
- Death in the West
- Birth goes public
- Maternity homes and motherhood
- Conclusion: What we lost.