Coming Home - How Midwives Changed Birth

Coming Home tells the story of how a significant number of parents in postwar America opted out of the standardized medicated hospital birth and recast home birth as a legitimate and desirable choice.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: From Hospital to Home


• Ch 1. Back to Bed: From Hospital to Home Obstetrics in the City of Chicago


• Ch 2. Middle-Class Midwifery: Transforming Birth Practices in Suburban Washington, DC


• Ch 3. Psychedelic Birth: The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife


• Ch 4. The Bowland Bust: Medicine and the Law in Santa Cruz, California


• Ch 5. From El Paso to Lexington: The Formation of the Midwives Alliance of North America


• Ch 6. From Professionalization to Education: The Creation of the Seattle Midwifery School


• Conclusion: There's No Place Like Home


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Wendy Kline is Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine in the Department of History at Purdue University. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom and Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave.

Summary

Coming Home tells the story of how a significant number of parents in postwar America opted out of the standardized medicated hospital birth and recast home birth as a legitimate and desirable choice.

Additional text

Kline offers a rich and complicated history of direct entry midwifery and the twentieth-century American homebirth movement ... At the core of Kline's thesis is that in each locale where women were called into midwifery, they collaborated with physicians. These women saw childbirth as requiring much more than medical technology, yet they recognized it had its place, and thus sought out or welcomed unsolicited supportive medical advisers and teachers.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Kline, Wendy (Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History Kline, Kline Wendy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2021
• EAN: 9780197563380
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756338-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Women, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers, History of Medicine, Pregnancy, birth & baby care, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues, Gender studies: women and girls