Lying-in : a history of childbirth in America /
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Author / Creator: | Wertz, Richard W. |
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Edition: | Expanded ed. |
Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, 1989. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114879 |
Table of Contents:
- Midwives and social childbirth in colonial America
- The new midwifery
- Modesty and morality
- The wounds of birth: Birthpain and puerperal fever
- Birth in the hospital
- "Natural childbirth"
- Government involvement
- Creating the perfect child: The 1980s and beyond
- Epilogue: Everybody's search for the best.