A01=Mary Alvey Thomas
Author_Mary Alvey Thomas
birth process
Category=DNBM
Category=JHBK
Category=VFXB
chronicle
correspondence
delivery
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_health-lifestyle
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_parenting
eq_society-politics
hospital
medicine
natural childbirth
painless birth
painless delivery
pregnancy
Revelation of Childhood
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9781878822871
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Women's experience of childbirth in the mid-twentieth century, revealed in their own words.
For pregnant women in the 1930s and 1940s Dr. Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth as the "normal" way to have babies, making drugs, instruments and hospitalization unnecessary. His book Childbirth withoutFear, first published in 1933, spoke of the joys of natural childbirth; women from around the world wrote long, detailed, and poignant letters in response, describing their own experiences in giving birth.
This edited collection of the correspondence affords a rare look at childbirth experiences in the hospitals and birthing centers in post-war America and Britain from the perspective of the patient, as women discuss the way they were viewed bysociety, by hospitals, and by physicians and nurses, and their own feelings on childbirth; overall, the book provides an important opportunity to evaluate the treatment of women in the 1940s and 1950s, the generation who gave birth to the so-called "baby boomers." Professor MARY ALVEY THOMAS teaches at Bentley College, Waltham.
