From Home to Hospital - Jewish and Italian American Women and Childbirth, 1920-1940

Employing seventy-eight in-depth interviews with Italian and Jewish American women, this study presents the subjective voices of women caught up in an important social change: the pre-1940 transformation of childbirth. Italian women were more varied in their choices-some were more likely to prefer home birth with a midwife, while others used a hospital clinic or private physician. A significant number moved from home to hospital over their birth careers, while nearly all Jewish women selected physician-assisted hospital birth. These differences are explained by looking at the structure and context of women's family and friendship networks and their personal links to varying childbirth caretakers.

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By Angela D. Danzi

Product details

• Authors: Angela Danzi, Angela D Danzi, Angela D. Danzi, Danzi Angela D.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.1997
• EAN: 9780761809111
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-0911-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, MEDICAL / Administration, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Addiction and therapy, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Medical administration & management, Medical administration and management