Judith Walzer Leavitt

Brought to Bed (eBook, PDF)

Childbearing in America, 1750-1950, 30th Anniversary Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century. Judith Walzer Leavitt's classic study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. Leavitt narrates the shifting power of childbearing women and their physicians, as well as changes in infant and maternal mortality. She also discusses how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new preface that reviews the burgeoning writing on the history of childbirth since its publication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190264130
• Artikelnr.: 48793528

Autorenporträt

Judith Walzer Leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health, and Make Room For Daddy: The Journey from the Waiting Room to the Delivery Room.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface to 30th Anniversary Edition
* Introduction
* 1 "Under the Shadow of Maternity": Childbirth and Women's Lives in
America
* 2 "Science" Enters the Birthing Room: The Impact of Physician
Obstetrics
* 3 "Overcivilization and Maternity": Differences in Women's Childbirth
Experiences
* 4 "Only a Woman Can Know": The Role of Gender in the Birthing Room
* 5 "The Greatest Blessing of This Age": Pain Relief in Obstetrics
* 6 Why Women Suffer So: Meddlesome Midwifery and Scrupulous
Cleanliness
* 7 "Alone Among Strangers": Birth Moves to the Hospital
* 8 Decision-Making and the Process of Change
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Chronology of Events in Childbirth History
* Glossary of Medical Terms
* Index