Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Banks, Amanda Carson
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Midwifery.
Maternal health services.
Childbirth > Social aspects.
Birth customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Naissance > Rites et coutumes > Histoire.
Sages-femmes > Histoire.
Midwifery > instrumentation
Maternal Health Services > history
Midwifery > history
Maternal health services > History.
Birth customs > History.
Midwifery > History.
Childbirth > Social aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 the male-dominated medical profession. In Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine, Amanda Carson Banks examines the history of the birth chair and tells how this birthing device changed over time. Through photographs, artists' renditions of births, interviews, and texts from midwives and early obstet.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (154 pages).
ISBN:9781621031390

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