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The Politics of maternity care : services for childbearing women in twentieth-century Britain / edited by Jo Garcia, Robert Kilpatrick, Martin Richards.
- Title
- The Politics of maternity care : services for childbearing women in twentieth-century Britain / edited by Jo Garcia, Robert Kilpatrick, Martin Richards.
- Publication
- Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | WA 310 P769 1990 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 346 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Maternity care was the subject of intense campaigning early in this century. This collection of essays brings together historical and social perspectives to put these debates in context and chart how the present situation arose.
- Subjects
- Obstetrics
- Maternal health services
- Great Britain
- History
- Great Britain > Maternity health services
- Geschichte 1900-1990
- 1900-1999
- United Kingdom
- Obstetrics > history
- Maternal Health Services > history
- Verloskundige zorg
- Moederschapszorg
- Großbritannien
- Mutterschaftshilfe
- Geburtshilfe
- Obstetrics > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Maternal health services > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine derived contents note: 1. Public Debate and the Maternity Services in the Inter-War Years, Jane Lewis -- 2. The Engineering of Childbirth: A New Obstetric Program as Reflected in Obstetric Textbooks 1960-1980, Eckart Schwarz -- 3. The Recent History of the Midwifery Profession, Sarah Robinson -- 4. Strategies of the Early Childbirth Movement: A Case Study of the National Childbirth Trust, Jenny Kitzinger -- 5. Obstetric Analgesia and the Control of Childbirth in Twentieth Century Britain, Jenny Beinart -- 6. Learning About Birth: Parenthood and Sex Education in English Secondary Schools, Shirley Prendergast and Alan Proust -- 7. Labour Relations: Midwives and Doctors on the Labour Ward, Jenny Kitzinger, Josephine Green, and Vanessa Coupland -- 8. Parents and Newborn in the Labour Ward, Jo Garcia and Sally Garforth -- 9. Elective Delivery: Attitudes and Responses of Parents and Children, Ann Oakley and Martin Richards -- 10. Fathers: The Emergence of a New Consumer Group, Rose Barbour -- 11. Recent Debate of the Place of Birth, Rona Campbell and Alison Macfarlane -- 12. Finding out about the Views and Experiences of Maternity Service Users, Ann Jacoby and Ann Cartwright -- 13. Pressure Groups and Maternity Care, Lyn Durward and Ruth Evans -- 14. Black Women and the Maternity Services, Ann Phoenix -- 15. Screening Today, Margaret Reid -- 16. How Obstetrics Might Change, Wendy Savage.
- ISBN
- 019827288X
- 9780198272885
- 0198272871
- 9780198272878
- LCCN
- 89015959
- OCLC
- 19971068
- SCSB-14232162
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library