Coming home : how midwives changed birth / Wendy Kline.
"By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing. By 1970, the percentage of hospital bi...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection |
Table of Contents:
- From hospital to home
- Back to bed : from hospital to home obstetrics in the city of Chicago
- Middle-class midwifery : transforming birth practices in suburban Washington, DC
- Psychedelic birth : the emergence of the hippie midwife
- The Bowland bust : medicine and the law in Santa Cruz, California
- From El Paso to Lexington : the formation of the Midwives Alliance of North America
- From professionalization to education : the creation of the Seattle Midwifery School
- Epilogue : in search of common ground.