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Zusatztext an enjoyable and absorbing read. Michaels writes well, and because the arguments are so clearly made and provocatively posed, this would be an excellent book for gender and medicine courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students would read this book, and scholars interested in the history of gender and medicine should as well. Informationen zum Autor Paula A. Michaels teaches history and international studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia. Klappentext Reveals the surprising history of the Lamaze method of childbirth, also known as psychoprophylaxis, by tracing this psychological, non-pharmacological approach to obstetric pain relief from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to France in the 1950s, and to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Zusammenfassung Reveals the surprising history of the Lamaze method of childbirth, also known as psychoprophylaxis, by tracing this psychological, non-pharmacological approach to obstetric pain relief from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to France in the 1950s, and to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Medicalized Childbirth and Natural Childbirth 3. The Soviet Method,1936-51 4. "Science Knows No Borders": Psychoprophylaxis in France, 1951-56 4. "Passionate Controversies": Conflict and Change in Psychprophylaxis across Europe in the 1950s 5. Lamaze Goes Global, 1957-67 6. American Gains and Global Decline, 1968-80 7. Epilogye: Revolution of Cooptation?
