Search Results - Childbirth

Midwives, society, and childbirth debates and controversies in the modern period /

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Childbirth in republican China delivering modernity / by Johnson, Tina Phillips, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Missionaries and modernity -- Reproduction theory : modern childbirth and modern motherhood -- The midwifery profession -- National reproduction in republican China -- Epilogue : reproduction in twentieth-century China.…”
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The medical delivery business health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / by Perkins, Barbara Bridgman

Table of Contents: “…Business models and medical interventions -- Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization -- Academic specialty departments and scientific management -- Dividing labor, industrializing birth -- Designing delivery systems -- The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine -- Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry -- Perinatal regionalization and economic order -- The economic production of childbirth -- Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms -- Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans -- Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor -- Re-forming medicine, reforming reform.…”
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Reproducing women medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / by Wu, Yi-Li, 1965-

Subjects: “…Childbirth China History.…”
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Brought to bed childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950 / by Leavitt, Judith Walzer

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Make room for daddy the journey from waiting room to birthing room / by Leavitt, Judith Walzer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : men matter -- Alone among strangers : the medicalization of childbirth -- Keeping vigil : fathers in waiting rooms -- The best backrubber : fathers move into labor rooms -- He wants to know : prenatal education for fathers -- Peaceful and confident : mothers and fathers in labor rooms -- Side by side : men move into delivery rooms -- We did it : together in delivery and birthing rooms -- Epilogue : expectant fathers' expectations.…”
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African American midwifery in the South dialogues of birth, race, and memory / by Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta

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Vernacular bodies the politics of reproduction in early modern England / by Fissell, Mary Elizabeth

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Birthing the nation sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons / by Cody, Lisa Forman

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Modern motherhood women and family in England, c. 1945-2000 / by Davis, Angela, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Family and community : surveying women and the family -- Educating mothers : family, school and antenatal education -- Pregnancy and childbirth : antenatal care, birth and postnatal care -- Experts and childcare 'bibles' : mothers and advice literature -- Working and caring : women's labour inside and outside the home -- Breadwinners and homemakers : ideals of men and women in the family.…”
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