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019 _a(OCoLC)1013938321
019 _a(OCoLC)1029813961
019 _a(OCoLC)1032688541
019 _a(OCoLC)1037980809
019 _a(OCoLC)1041998674
019 _a(OCoLC)1046618621
019 _a(OCoLC)1047002721
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024 7 _a10.4159/harvard.9780674733480
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674733480
035 _a(DE-B1597)247676
035 _a(OCoLC)900809459
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aRG652
_b.B65 1995
072 7 _aHIS036060
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082 0 4 _a618.2/009775
_220
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBorst, Charlotte G.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCatching Babies :
_bThe Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920 /
_cCharlotte G. Borst.
250 _aReprint 2013
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©1995
300 _a1 online resource (254 p.) :
_b24 line illustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tINTRODUCTION: Midwives, Physicians, and Professionalism --
_tCHAPTER ONE. Training Midwives --
_tCHAPTER TWO. A Married Woman’s Occupation --
_tCHAPTER THREE. Neighbor Women in the Country --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. Midwife Entrepreneurs in the City --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Educating Physicians --
_tCHAPTER SIX. Country Doctors Replace Midwives --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. Specializing Obstetrics --
_tCONCLUSION. Gender, Ethnicity, and the Meanings of Professionalism --
_tAppendix: Quantitative Sources --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aChildbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional female knowledge was in conflict with the new ways. Here the choice of attendants and their practices defined gender, ethnicity, class, and the role of the professional. Using the methodology of social science theory, particularly quantitative statistical analysis and historical demography, Charlotte Borst examines the effect of gender, culture, and class on the transition to physician-attended childbirth. Earlier studies have focused on physician opposition to midwifery, devoting little attention to the training for and actual practice of midwifery. As a result, until now we knew little about the actual conditions of the midwife's education and practice. Catching Babies is the first study to examine the move to physician-attended birth within the context of a particular community. It focuses on four representative counties in Wisconsin to study both midwives and physicians within the context of their community. Borst finds that midwives were not pushed out of practice by elitist or misogynist obstetricians. Instead, their traditional, artisanal skills ceased to be valued by a society that had come to embrace the model of disinterested, professional science. The community that had previously hired midwives turned to physicians who shared ethnic and cultural values with the very midwives they replaced.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)
650 0 _aChildbirth
_zWisconsin
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aChildbirth
_zWisconsin
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aChildbirth.
650 0 _aGeburtshilfe.
650 0 _aGeschichte 1870-1920.
650 0 _aGynaecologie.
650 0 _aHebamme.
650 0 _aMedizin, Gesundheit.
650 0 _aMidwifery
_zWisconsin
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMidwifery.
650 0 _aObstetrics
_zWisconsin
_xHistory.
650 0 _aObstetrics.
650 0 _aProfessions
_xSociological aspects.
650 0 _aPsychosociale aspecten.
650 0 _aVerloskunde.
650 4 _aMEDICAL / General.
650 4 _aMEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics.
650 4 _aMEDICAL / History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733480
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674733480
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