Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

Informationen zum Autor Janet Greenlees, Linda Bryder Klappentext The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years. Zusammenfassung The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Western Maternity and Medicine: An Introduction, Linda Bryder, Janet Greenlees; Chapter 1 Safely Delivered? Insights into Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Maternity Care from Coronial Investigations into Maternal Deaths, Madonna Grehan; Chapter 2 Pregnancy, Pathology and Public Morals: Making Antenatal Care in Edinburgh Around 1900, Salim Al-Gailani; Chapter 3 ‘The Peculiar and Complex Female Problem’: The Church of Scotland and Health Care for Unwed Mothers, 1900–1948, Janet Greenlees; Chapter 4 Taking ‘Advantage of the Facilities and Comforts … Offered’: Women’s Choice of Hospital Delivery in Interwar Edinburgh, Alison Nuttall; Chapter 5 ‘What Women Want’: Childbirth Services and Women’s Activism in New Zealand, 1900–1960, Linda Bryder; Chapter 6 ’Twixt God and Geography: The Development of Maternity Services in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Lindsey Earner-Byrne; Chapter 7 Test Tubes and Turpitude: Medical Responses to the Infertile Patient in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland, Gayle Davis; Chapter 8 Women’s Experiences of the Maternity Services in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, c. 1970–1990, Angela Davis; Chapter 9 From Muller to Johnson Controls: Mothers and Workplace Health in the us, from Protective Labour Legislation to Fetal Protection Policies, Allison L. Hepler;

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• Authors: Janet Greenlees, Janet (EDT)/ Bryder Greenlees
• Assisted by: Linda Bryder (Editor), Bryder Linda (Editor), Janet Greenlees (Editor), Greenlees Janet (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9781848934344
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-434-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine; Studies for the Society for th; Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; 20th Century, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, MEDICAL / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Materno-fetal medicine, Materno-foetal medicine / perinatology