Birth chairs, midwives, and medicine /
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| Author / Creator: | Banks, Amanda Carson, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1999. |
| Description: | xxiii, 154 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4116049 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Artifacts and the Cultural Construction of Birth
- Stones and Stools: An Early History of Birth Chairs and the Practice of Delivery
- Curse or Cure? The Rise of Professional Medicine, the Redefinition of Birth, and the Move from Chair to Bed for Delivery
- Contest and Compromise: The Debate over the Philosophy of Birth, the Return of the Birth Chair, and the Struggle for Ownership
- Belief, Artifacts, and the Cultural Construction of Medicine
- App. Museums and Archives with Birth Chairs in Their Collections.
