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ISBN: | 0585362041 9780585362045 0300075979
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-277) and index. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Caton, Donald, 1937- What a blessing she had chloroform. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999 0300075979
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