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- |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999. |
| Description: | xvi, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3857954 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Physicians and the Pain of Childbirth. 1. "The Head of Jove and the Body of Bacchus": James Young Simpson and the Beginning of Obstetric Anesthesia. 2. "A Cup of Circe": The Opposition to Obstetric Anesthesia. 3. "Bled, Leeched, Salivated": The Transformation of Medical Practice by Science. 4. "The Queen in Her Confinement": John Snow's Approach to Anesthesia. 5. "The Tender Organization of the Newborn": Balancing the Risks of Pain and Anesthesia
- Pt. II. Women and the Pain of Childbirth. 6. "The Sin of Our First Parents": The Social Connotations of Pain. 7. "This Blessed Chloroform": Pain as Biological and Anesthesia as Necessary. 8. "There Ought to Be No Pain": The American Women's Campaign for Twilight Sleep. 9. "Labor Is Pathogenic": The National Birthday Trust Fund Campaign in Great Britain. 10. "As God Intended": Grantly Dick Read and the Natural Childbirth Movement
- Pt. III. In the Delivery Room: Physicians and Women Together. 11. "Pain Makes Things Valuable": The Danger of Drugs and the Social Value of Pain. 12. "The Greatest Misery of Sickness Is Solitude": Current Controversy.
