Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period / edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty
- Bib ID:
- 89563
- Format:
- Book
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
- xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415133289
- Series:
- Studies in the social history of medicine.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies / Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty
- 1. Establishing the Scope of Practice: Organizing European Midwifery in the Inter-War Years 1919-1938 / Anne Thompson
- 2. Swedish Midwives and their Instruments in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Christina Romlid
- 3. How to be a Midwife in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain / Teresa Ortiz and Clara Martinez Padilla
- 4. Rosalind Paget: The Midwife, the Women's Movement and Reform Before 1914 / June Hannam
- 5. The 'Antiseptic' Transformation of Danish Midwives, 1860-1920 / Anne Lokke
- 6. State Control in Local Context: Public Health and Midwife Regulation in Manchester, 1900-1914 / Joan Mottram
- 7. The Midwife as Health Missionary: The Reform of Dutch Childbirth Practices in the Early Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland
- 8. Midwives and the Quality Maternal Care / Irvine Loudon.
- 9. The End of Home Births in the German Language Islands of Northern Italy / Christoph Brezinka
- 10. Midwifery and Medicine: Gendered Knowledge in the Practice of Delivery / Susan Pitt
- 11. The Controlling Power of Childbirth in Britain / Jan Williams
- 12. Midwives Among the Machines: Re-Creating Midwifery in the Late Twentieth Century / Raymond G. DeVries and Rebecca Barroso.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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