Book ID: CBB000102412

Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth: Comparative Perspectives (2000)

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Teijlingen, Edwin R. Van (Editor)
Lowis, George W. (Editor)
McCafffery, Peter (Editor)
Porter, Maureen (Editor)


Nova Science Publishers


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xii + 393 pp., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Highlights the interplay between midwifery and medicine, reflecting the medicalization of childbirth. Partial contents: George Lowis; Peter Mccafffery: Sociological Factors Affecting the Medicalization of Midwifery. Edwin R. van Teijlingen: Introduction: History of Midwifery. Valerie French: Midwives & Maternity Care in the Roman World. Merry Weisner: Early Modern Midwifery A Case Study. Beatrice J. Kalisch; M. Scobey; Philip Kalisch: Louyse Bourgeois and the Emergence of Modern Midwifery. Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg: Is Childbirth Any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth Century England. Thomas R. Forbes: Perrette the Midwife: A Fifteen Century Witchcraft Case. Jean Donnison: The Decline of the Midwife. Helene Laforce: The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Québec. M. J. Van Lieburg; H. Marland: Midwife Regulation, Education, and Practice in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century. Maureen Porter: Midwifery in Contemporary Western Societies. S. Mckay: Models of Midwifery Care: Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. Edwin R. Van Teijlingen: Maternity Home Care Assistants in the Netherlands. Janet Askham; Rosaline S. Barbour: The Role and Responsibilities of the Midwife in Scotland. Maureen Porter: Changing Childbirth. Cecilia Benoit: An Exception to the Canadian Case: Autonomous Midwifery at the Margins. Ronnie Lichtman: Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth. George Lowis: The Traditional Midwife and the Medicalisation of Maternity Care. Sheila Cosminsky: Childbirth and Change: A Guatemalan Study. Carol C. Laderman: A Baby is Born in Merchang. Patricia Jeffery; Roger Jeffery: Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural North India: Knowledge, Power and Practice in Medicine and Everyday Life. William Alto; Ruth Albu; Garabinu Irabo: An Alternative to Unattended Delivery--Training Programmefor Village Midwives in Papua New Guinea. Peter Mccaffery: The Politics of Midwifery: Introduction. J. P. Rooks: The Context of Nurse Midwifery in the 1980s. Raymond G. Devries: The Trap of Legal Recognition. Ann Oakley: Who Cares for Women? Science versus Love in Midwifery Today. Charles Ziegler: The Elimination of the Midwife. I. Loudon: The European Midwife. Eugene R. Declercq: Interview with Professor Kloosterman; A Cross-National Analysis of Midwifery Politics: Six Lessons for Midwives. Jane Sandall: Choice, Continuity & Control: Changing Midwifery, towards a Sociological Perspective. Edwin R. Van Teijlingen: The Future of Midwifery.


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Authors & Contributors
Schlumbohm, Jürgen
Woods, Robert
Williams, Samantha
Tol, Deanne van
Steinke, Hubert
Sharp, Jane
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Medical History
Women's History Review
Spontaneous Generations
Journal of the History of Sexuality
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of California, Davis
University Press of Mississippi
University of Texas Press
Oxford University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Childbirth
Nurse midwives
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Physicians; doctors
Great Britain, colonies
People
Smellie, William
Sharp, Jane
Hey, William,
Chauliac, Guy de
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Medieval
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Bahia (Brazil)
Nigeria
Puerto Rico
Zurich (Switzerland)
Netherlands
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
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