Ulteriori informazioni
Zusatztext In her superb history of the Lamaze - or more accurately, the psychoprophylactic - technique, Paula Michaels shows how transformations in the management of childbirth also mediated the international and domestic rivalries of Cold War politics. ...Michaels has succeeded in producing an innovative, refreshing and insightful book. Informationen zum Autor Paula A. Michaels is Senior Lecturer of 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 5. "Passionate Controversies": Conflict and Change in Psychoprophylaxis across Europe in the 1950s 6. Lamaze Goes Global, 1957-67 7. American Gains and Global Decline, 1968-80 8. Epilogue: Revolution or Cooptation?
