Control of Childbirth

Women Versus Medicine Through the Ages

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

When childbirth moved from women's homes into hospitals, women lost more than they had bargained for. As the event became increasingly male-dominated and medically oriented, women's control of the experience all but vanished. Worse, recent clinical trials have demonstrated that most modern interventions and technological practices have not improved delivery outcomes and are not necessary in normal labor and birth.From pre-classical to present times, this work describes childbirth practices as they have developed through the ages. The author describes and critiques the evolution of modern midwifery and obstetrics, focusing especially on how, why, and when the process of childbirth became an increasingly sterile, male-dominated, and medically oriented event.Each chapter focuses on a different period, from the age of the female midwife (who oversaw the childbirth process for several centuries), through the origins of modern obstetrics and gynecology, and finally, to the increasing influence of technology in the practices that have prevailed for most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:308 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786433629

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Gynekologi och obstetrik inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Phyllis L. Brodsky has been a nurse, hospital clinical educator, and university instructor. Also the author of articles and chapters in journals and manuals, she lives in Berlin, Maryland.

Recensioner i media

“recommended”—Choice; “how and why women became excluded from their own child-bearing experience and how this power can be regained. Readers get coverage of the centuries-long battles between midwives and physicians”—Library Journal; “Anyone who is teaching Childbirth classes to the public and those nurses who work labor and delivery need to read this book. The well researched history was excellent”—Linda Barnes, RN Educator.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Mary Ann Shah Preface Introduction 1. Childbirth in Primitive and Ancient Times 2. The Middle Ages: An Era of Despair and Persecution 3. The Sixteenth Century: A Renaissance 4. The Seventeenth Century: Men and Their Instruments 5. The Eighteenth Century: Men and Science 6. The Nineteenth Century: Men and Disease 7. Childbirth in Early America 8. Nineteenth-Century America: The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology 9. Early Twentieth-Century America: The “Midwife Problem” and Medicalized Childbirth 10. The Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Technology-Managed Childbirth, By Edna Quinn 11. The Twenty-First Century: Technological Childbirth Challenged 12. Conclusion: Women in Power Notes Bibliography Index