Delivered by Midwives : African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South /

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""Catchin' babies" was merely one aspect of the broad role of African American midwives in the twentieth-century South. Yet, little has been written about the type of care they provided or how midwifery and maternity care evolved under the increasing presence of local and federal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luke, Jenny M., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Midwifery.
Childbirth.
African American midwives.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sages-femmes > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sages-femmes noires americaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
History, 20th Century
Nurse Midwives > history
African Americans > history
Midwifery > history
Childbirth > History > 20th century.
Midwifery > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American midwives > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States.
Southeastern United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Motherwit: lay midwifery
  • Out of slavery
  • Cultural motifs persist
  • Licensing and the "new laws"
  • Implementing the changes
  • Working with the state
  • Working with physicians
  • Asafetida to aureomycin: African American nurse-midwives
  • Establishing the professional nurse-midwife
  • African American nurse-midwives
  • The application of nurse-midwives
  • Problems of racism and challenges to professionalism
  • Changing attitudes and better access
  • Overcoming challenges
  • African American women turn to hospital birth
  • Changing childbirth customs
  • Midwifery in transition
  • Lay midwives "retire"
  • Midwifery becomes a white woman's realm
  • Midwifery today and its potential for tomorrow.

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