Paula A. Michaels

Lamaze

An International History

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals the surprising history of the Lamaze method of childbirth, also known as psychoprophylaxis, by tracing this psychological, non-pharmacological approach to obstetric pain relief from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to France in the 1950s, and to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780190675103
• ISBN-10: 0190675101
• Artikelnr.: 47868067

Autorenporträt

Paula A. Michaels is Senior Lecturer of history and international studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Medicalized Childbirth and Natural Childbirth
3. The Soviet Method, 1936-51
4. "Science Knows No Borders": Psychoprophylaxis in France, 1951-56
5. "Passionate Controversies": Conflict and Change in Psychoprophylaxis across Europe in the 1950s
6. Lamaze Goes Global, 1957-67
7. American Gains and Global Decline, 1968-80
8. Epilogue: Revolution or Cooptation?