Nurse-midwifery the birth of a new American profession

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ettinger, Laura Elizabeth, 1968- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press cop. 2006.
Colección:Women, gender, and health.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conception: nurse-midwives and the professionalization of childbirth
  • Early labor pains, 1925-1940
  • Eastern Kentucky's frontier nursing service: Mary Breckinridge's mission, survival strategies, and race
  • New York City's Maternity Center Association: educational opportunities and urban constraints
  • Active labor, 1940-1960
  • Transitions: new directions, new limitations
  • Traditions: home birth in a high-tech age
  • Don't push: struggling to create a political strategy and professional identity
  • Epilogue: afterbirth: learning from the past, looking to the future.