Brought to Bed Childbearing in America, 1750-1950

Name: Brought to Bed Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
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ISBN: 9780195038439

ISBN-10: 0195038436

ISBN-13: 9780195038439

Edition: 1986

Authors: Judith Walzer Leavitt

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"Childbirth is more than a biological even in women's lives," writes Judith Leavitt. "It is a vital component in the social definition of women." This book uses personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants to show how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Brought to Bed describes the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices and their replacement by male doctors and the movement of birth from the home to the hospital. Leavitt points out that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth practices because they believed the increased medicalization would make birth safer and more comfortable. The irony was that infant and…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 295
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Scott Taylor is a photographer whose photographs have appeared in many local, state, regional, and national magazines, publications, and galleries; he works from his studio and gallery in historic Beaufort, North Carolina.Judith Walzer Leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of Medical History and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.