The Control of Childbirth: Women Versus Medicine Through the AgesMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 14 mrt 2008 - 222 pagina's 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. |
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... wrote , " Do not refuse to believe women on matters concerning parturition " and Aetuis wrote , " It is needless to give a treatise on midwifery , because from long experience , not only do midwives , but also other women know this sub ...
... wrote medical books and made significant contributions to medicine , gynecology , and obstetrics . By the fourth century B.C. , Greek women were forbidden to practice medicine . However , then , as in other eras , female patients were ...
... wrote several volumes of her Treatise on the Art of Mid- wifery : Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein , Especially as to the Prac- tice with Instruments , published in 1760 . Nihell assailed men - midwives . She wrote that women may ...
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Childbirth in Early America | 7 |
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