Midwives, Society and Childbirth : Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period.

By: Marland, HilaryContributor(s): Rafferty, Anne MarieMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 1997Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203435892Subject(s): Midwifery -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses | Midwifery -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | Midwifery -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Congresses | Midwifery -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses | Midwifery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses | Midwifery -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Midwives, Society and Childbirth : Debates and Controversies in the Modern PeriodDDC classification: 362.1/980233 LOC classification: RG950 -- .M54 1997ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Summary: Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric science in particular from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession, while stressing the importance of regional influences and locality. Dr Anne Marie Rafferty, Philadelphia, Dr Hilary Marland, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Dr Irvine Louden, Oxfordshire, Joan Mottram, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medic.
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Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric science in particular from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession, while stressing the importance of regional influences and locality. Dr Anne Marie Rafferty, Philadelphia, Dr Hilary Marland, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Dr Irvine Louden, Oxfordshire, Joan Mottram, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medic.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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