Book ID: CBB000771253

African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory (1998)

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Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: x + 287 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description A study of race, gender, and culture through the transformation of reproductive health care as state public health initiatives gradually eliminated midwifery.


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Review Barton, Patricia (2005) Review of "African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory". Social History of Medicine (p. 506). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hatch, Anthony Ryan
Jones, Esther L.
Doyle, Dennis A.
Segrest, Mab
Savitt, Todd Lee
Rutherdale, Myra
Journals
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Feminist Studies
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
American Quarterly
Publishers
University of Minnesota Press
University of California, Riverside
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Palgrave Macmillan
McGill-Queen's University Press
Kent State University Press
Concepts
Medicine and race
African Americans and science
African Americans
Public health
Medicine and gender
Nurse midwives
People
Yang, Chongrui
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Modern
21st century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
China
Philadelphia, PA
Georgia (U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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