What a blessing she had chloroform : the medical and social response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the present /

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Author / Creator:Caton, Donald, 1937-
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Anesthesia in obstetrics -- History.
Pain -- Prevention -- History.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Anesthesia.
MEDICAL -- Anesthesiology.
Anesthesia in obstetrics.
Pain -- Prevention.
Geboorte.
Anesthesie.
Anesthesia, Obstetrical -- history.
Pain -- prevention & control.
Labor, Obstetric.
Labor, Obstetric.
Pain.
Social Values.
Anesthesia, Obstetrical.
Anesthesia.
Sensation.
Pregnancy.
Neurologic Manifestations.
Signs and Symptoms.
Psychology, Social.
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms.
Nervous System Diseases.
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
Reproduction.
Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Psychophysiology.
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
Disease.
Reproductive Physiological Phenomena.
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena.
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena.
Phenomena and Processes.
Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113601
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ISBN:0585362041
9780585362045
0300075979
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-277) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"This book describes in fascinating detail the history of the use of anesthesia in childbirth and in so doing offers a unique perspective on the interaction between medical science and social values. Dr. Donald Caton traces the responses of physicians and their patients to the pain of childbirth from the popularization of anesthesia to the natural childbirth movement and beyond. He finds that physicians discovered what could be done to manage pain, and patients decided what would be done."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Caton, Donald, 1937- What a blessing she had chloroform. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999 0300075979