Catching Babies : : The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920 / / Charlotte G. Borst.
Childbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional female knowledge was i...
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Borst, Charlotte G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Catching Babies : The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920 / Charlotte G. Borst. Reprint 2013 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1995 1 online resource (254 p.) : 24 line illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Midwives, Physicians, and Professionalism -- CHAPTER ONE. Training Midwives -- CHAPTER TWO. A Married Woman’s Occupation -- CHAPTER THREE. Neighbor Women in the Country -- CHAPTER FOUR. Midwife Entrepreneurs in the City -- CHAPTER FIVE. Educating Physicians -- CHAPTER SIX. Country Doctors Replace Midwives -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Specializing Obstetrics -- CONCLUSION. Gender, Ethnicity, and the Meanings of Professionalism -- Appendix: Quantitative Sources -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Childbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional female knowledge was in conflict with the new ways. Here the choice of attendants and their practices defined gender, ethnicity, class, and the role of the professional. Using the methodology of social science theory, particularly quantitative statistical analysis and historical demography, Charlotte Borst examines the effect of gender, culture, and class on the transition to physician-attended childbirth. Earlier studies have focused on physician opposition to midwifery, devoting little attention to the training for and actual practice of midwifery. As a result, until now we knew little about the actual conditions of the midwife's education and practice. Catching Babies is the first study to examine the move to physician-attended birth within the context of a particular community. It focuses on four representative counties in Wisconsin to study both midwives and physicians within the context of their community. Borst finds that midwives were not pushed out of practice by elitist or misogynist obstetricians. Instead, their traditional, artisanal skills ceased to be valued by a society that had come to embrace the model of disinterested, professional science. The community that had previously hired midwives turned to physicians who shared ethnic and cultural values with the very midwives they replaced. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Childbirth Wisconsin History 19th century. Childbirth Wisconsin History 20th century. Childbirth. Geburtshilfe. Geschichte 1870-1920. Gynaecologie. Hebamme. Medizin, Gesundheit. Midwifery Wisconsin History. Midwifery. Obstetrics Wisconsin History. Obstetrics. Professions Sociological aspects. Psychosociale aspecten. Verloskunde. MEDICAL / General. MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics. MEDICAL / History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package 9783110353464 ZDB-23-HAH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674733473 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733480 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674733480 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674733480/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Midwives, Physicians, and Professionalism -- CHAPTER ONE. Training Midwives -- CHAPTER TWO. A Married Woman’s Occupation -- CHAPTER THREE. Neighbor Women in the Country -- CHAPTER FOUR. Midwife Entrepreneurs in the City -- CHAPTER FIVE. Educating Physicians -- CHAPTER SIX. Country Doctors Replace Midwives -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Specializing Obstetrics -- CONCLUSION. Gender, Ethnicity, and the Meanings of Professionalism -- Appendix: Quantitative Sources -- Notes -- Index |
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