Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period / edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty.
"Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of so...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Series: | Studies in the social history of medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Midwives, society and childbirth: debates and controversies / Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty
- 1. Establishing the scope of practice: organizing European midwifery in the inter-war years 1919-1938 / Anne Thompson
- 2. Swedish midwives and their instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Christina Romlid
- 3. How to be a midwife in late nineteenth-century Spain / Teresa Ortiz and Clara Martìnez Padilla
- 4. Rosalind Paget: the midwife, the woman's movement and reform before 1914 / June Hannam
- 5. The 'Antisceptic' transformation of Danish midwives, 1860-1920 / Anne Løkke
- 6. State control in local context: public health and midwife regulation in Manchester, 1900-1914 / Joan Mottram
- 7. The midwife as health missionary: the reform of Dutch childbirth practices in the early Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland
- 8. Midwives and the quality of maternal care / Irvine Loudon
- 9. The end of home births in the German language islands of Northern Italy / Christoph Brezinka
- 10. Midwifery and medicine: gendered knowledge in the practice of delivery / Susan Pitt
- 11. The controlling power of childbirth in Britain / Jan Williams
- 12. Midwives among the machines: re-creating midwifery in the late Twentieth Century / Raymond G. DeVries and Rebecca Barroso.