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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hilary Marland; Anne Marie Rafferty |
| ISBN: | 0415133289 9780415133289 |
| OCLC Number: | 35360721 |
| Description: | xiii, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The social evolution of preindustrial American cities, 1700-1820 / Gary B. Nash -- Strumpets and misogynists : brothel "riots" an the transformation of prostitution in Antebellum New York City / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The enemy within : some effects of foreign immigrants on Antebellum Southern cities / Randall M. Miller -- The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan -- The centrality of the horse in the nineteenth-century American city / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr -- Underworlds and underdogs : big Tim Sullivan and metropolitan politics in New York, 1889-1913 / Daniel Czitrom -- The "poor man's friend" : saloonkeepers, workers, and the code of reciprocity in U.S. barrooms, 1870-1920 / Madelon Powers -- Leisure and labor / Kathy Peiss -- Chicago's 1919 race riot : ethnicity, class, and urban violence / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Music and mass culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles / George J. Sánchez -- The new deal in Dallas / Roger Biles -- Harold and Dutch : a comparative look at the first Black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Blacks and hispanics in multicultural America : a Miami case study / Raymond A. Mohl --Bold new city or built-up 'burb? Redefining contemporary suburbia / William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock -- New perspectives on American urban history / Raymond A. Mohl. |
| Series Title: | Studies in the social history of medicine. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty. |
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Abstract:
Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on an international scale, comparing experiences from Sweden, Denmark, Italy, England, Spain and the United States. The approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience of providing childbirth services.
Questioning many conventional historical assumptions for the first time, 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. Was it really a uniform and unrelieved demise, as midwives lost their status, independence, and role?
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