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Deliver me from pain : anesthesia and birth in America
- Title
- Deliver me from pain : anesthesia and birth in America / Jacqueline H. Wolf.
- Author
- Wolf, Jacqueline H.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xi, 277 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it posed serious risk to mothers and newborns, paradoxically came to assuage women's anxiety about birth." "Each chapter begins with the story of a birth, dramatically illustrating the unique practices of the era being examined. Deliver Me from Pain covers the development and use of anesthesia from ether and chloroform in the mid-nineteenth century; to amnesiacs, barbiturates, narcotics, opioids, tranquilizers, saddle blocks, spinals, and gas during the mid-twentieth century; to epidural anesthesia today." "As women make decisions about anesthesia today, 'Deliver Me from Pain offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Childbirth > United States > History
- Labor Pain > history
- Labor Pain > psychology
- Anesthesia in obstetrics > United States > History
- History, 19th Century
- Anesthesia, Obstetrical > history
- United States
- Delivery, Obstetric > history
- History, 20th Century
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Delivery, Obstetric > psychology
- Natural childbirth > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-265) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. "Terrible Torture" or "The Nicest Sensation I've Ever Had"? Conflicting Perceptions of Labor in U.S. History -- 1. Ether and Chloroform: The Question of Necessity, 1840s through 1890s -- 2. Twilight Sleep: The Question of Professional Respect, 1890s through 1930s -- 3. Developing the Obstetric Anesthesia Arsenal: The Question of Safety, 1900 through 1960s -- 4. Giving Birth to the Baby Boomers: The Question of Convenience, 1940s through 1960s -- 5. Natural Childbirth and Birth Reform: The Question of Authority, 1950s through 1980s -- 6. Epidural Anesthesia and Cesarean Section: The Question of Choice, 1970s to the Present -- Glossary of Medical Terminology.
- ISBN
- 9780801891106 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801891108 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008021274
- 40016462778
- OCLC
- ocn228114876
- 228114876
- SCSB-5460618
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries