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Informationen zum Autor Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty Klappentext "Midwives, Society and Childbirth" examines midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale, focusing on six countries from Europe, including Denmark, Italy, England and Spain, and the United States. Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, especially obstetric science, from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession. Ultimately an original and finely nuanced picture emerges, where the experience and status of midwives was affected above all by regional influences, and where the importance of locality is stressed. Zusammenfassung Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this text seeks to provide a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in the 20th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, List of tables, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION MIDWIVES, SOCIETY AND CHILDBIRTH: DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES, 1 ESTABLISHING THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE: ORGANIZING EUROPEAN MIDWIFERY IN THE INTER-WAR YEARS 1919–1938, 2 SWEDISH MIDWIVES AND THEIR INSTRUMENTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES, 3 HOW TO BE A MIDWIFE IN LATE NINETEENTHCENTURY SPAIN, 4 ROSALIND PAGET: THE MIDWIFE, THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT AND REFORM BEFORE 1914, 5 THE ‘ANTISEPTIC’ TRANSFORMATION OF DANISH MIDWIVES, 1860–1920, 6 STATE CONTROL IN LOCAL CONTEXT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND MIDWIFE REGULATION IN MANCHESTER, 1900–1914, 7 THE MIDWIFE AS HEALTH MISSIONARY: THE REFORM OF DUTCH CHILDBIRTH PRACTICES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, 8 MIDWIVES AND THE QUALITY OF MATERNAL CARE, 9 THE END OF HOME BIRTHS IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE ISLANDS OF NORTHERN ITALY, 10 MIDWIFERY AND MEDICINE: GENDERED KNOWLEDGE IN THE PRACTICE OF DELIVERY, 11 THE CONTROLLING POWER OF CHILDBIRTH IN BRITAIN, 12 MIDWIVES AMONG THE MACHINES: RE-CREATING MIDWIFERY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Index...
