Western maternity and medicine, 1880-1990
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Western maternity and medicine, 1880-1990
（Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, no. 14）
Pickering & Chatto, 2013
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Description
The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Western Maternity and Medicine: An Introduction, Linda Bryder, Janet Greenlees
- Chapter 1 Safely Delivered? Insights into Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Maternity Care from Coronial Investigations into Maternal Deaths, Madonna Grehan
- Chapter 2 Pregnancy, Pathology and Public Morals: Making Antenatal Care in Edinburgh Around 1900, Salim Al-Gailani
- Chapter 3 'The Peculiar and Complex Female Problem': The Church of Scotland and Health Care for Unwed Mothers, 1900-1948, Janet Greenlees
- Chapter 4 Taking 'Advantage of the Facilities and Comforts ... Offered': Women's Choice of Hospital Delivery in Interwar Edinburgh, Alison Nuttall
- Chapter 5 'What Women Want': Childbirth Services and Women's Activism in New Zealand, 1900-1960, Linda Bryder
- Chapter 6 'Twixt God and Geography: The Development of Maternity Services in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Lindsey Earner-Byrne
- Chapter 7 Test Tubes and Turpitude: Medical Responses to the Infertile Patient in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland, Gayle Davis
- Chapter 8 Women's Experiences of the Maternity Services in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, c. 1970-1990, Angela Davis
- Chapter 9 From Muller to Johnson Controls: Mothers and Workplace Health in the us, from Protective Labour Legislation to Fetal Protection Policies, Allison L. Hepler
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