Brought to Bed

Brought to Bed

EnglishEbook
Leavitt, Judith Walzer
Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780190264130
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Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century. Judith Walzer Leavitt's classic study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. Leavitt narrates the shifting power of childbearing women and their physicians, as well as changes in infant and maternal mortality. She also discusses how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new preface that reviews the burgeoning writing on the history of childbirth since its publication.
EAN 9780190264130
ISBN 0190264136
Binding Ebook
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date November 1, 2016
Pages 336
Language English
Country United States
Authors Leavitt, Judith Walzer
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