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Birth Attendance
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Childbirth Practice
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Direct Entry Midwife
District Medical Officer
District Midwife
Dutch Midwives
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Health Care
Health Care Profession
healthcare professional roles
historical midwifery professionalisation
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Home Birth
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Hospital Births
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Independent Midwives
Language Islands
Maternal Care
maternal health history
Maternal Mortality Rates
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Midwives Act
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Public Medical Officers
Puerperal Fever
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Swedish Midwives
Traditional Midwives
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415133289
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric science in particular from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession, while stressing the importance of regional influences and locality. Dr Anne Marie Rafferty, Philadelphia, Dr Hilary Marland, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Dr Irvine Louden, Oxfordshire, Joan Mottram, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medic
Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty
