| Description |
xvii, 350 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Health, society, and policy |
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Health, society, and policy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ann Oakley -- Introduction : The American way of birth / Pamela S. Eakins -- Part I. The medicalization of birth -- The medicalization of birth / Nancy Schrom Dye -- From natural to surgical event / Diana Scully -- Aggressive intervention and mortality / Janet Carlisle Bogdan -- Part II. The conduct of birth -- The social construction of birth / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Male doctor-female patient / Sandra K. Danziger -- Birth and social class / Margaret K. Nelson -- Cesarean birth / Pamela S. Summey -- Childbirth and the malpractice insurance industry / Wenda Brewster O'Reilly ... [et al.] -- Part III. Woman-centered birth -- Out-of-hospital birth / Pamela S. Eakins -- Nurse and lay midwifery in Vermont / Regi L. Teasley -- African American midwives in the South / Linda Janet Holmes -- Unionizing midwifery in California / Deborah Leveen -- Epilogue : A note on the future of American birth / Dorothy C. Wertz, Pamela S. Eakins. |
| Subject |
Childbirth -- Social aspects.
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Pregnancy -- Social aspects.
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Feminism.
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Social change.
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Delivery, Obstetric -- trends -- United States.
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Labor, Obstetric -- psychology -- United States.
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Pregnancy -- United States.
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Sociology, Medical -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Eakins, Pamela.
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| ISBN |
0877224323 alkaline paper |
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9780877224327 alkaline paper |
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