Wendy Kline

Coming Home

How Midwives Changed Birth

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Produktbeschreibung

Coming Home tells the story of how a significant number of parents in postwar America opted out of the standardized medicated hospital birth and recast home birth as a legitimate and desirable choice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780190232511
• ISBN-10: 019023251X
• Artikelnr.: 53693759

Autorenporträt

Wendy Kline is professor and Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine in the Department of History at Purdue University. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom and Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: From Hospital to Home
* Ch 1. Back to Bed: From Hospital to Home Obstetrics in the City of
Chicago
* Ch 2. Middle-Class Midwifery: Transforming Birth Practices in
Suburban Washington, DC
* Ch 3. Psychedelic Birth: The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife
* Ch 4. The Bowland Bust: Medicine and the Law in Santa Cruz,
California
* Ch 5. From El Paso to Lexington: The Formation of the Midwives
Alliance of North America
* Ch 6. From Professionalization to Education: The Creation of the
Seattle Midwifery School
* Conclusion: There's No Place Like Home
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index