Nurse-Midwifery : The Birth of a New American Profession /
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations-- Acknowledgments
- ch. 1. Conception : nurse-midwives and the professionalization of childbirth
- pt. 1. Early labor pains, 1925-1940
- ch. 2. Eastern Kentucky's frontier nursing service : Mary Breckinridge's mission, survival strategies, and race
- ch. 3. New York City's Maternity Center Association : educational opportunities and urban constraints
- pt. 2. Active labor, 1940-1960
- ch. 4. Transitions : new directions, new limitations
- ch. 5. Traditions : home birth in a high-tech age
- ch. 6. Don't push : struggling to create a political strategy and professional identity
- Epilogue : afterbirth : learning from the past, looking to the future
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.