Janet Greenlees

Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

Herausgeber: Greenlees, Janet; Bryder, Linda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.

Produktdetails

• Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663008
• ISBN-10: 113866300X
• Artikelnr.: 45218481

Autorenporträt

Janet Greenlees, Linda Bryder

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Western Maternity and Medicine: An Introduction, Linda Bryder,
Janet Greenlees; Chapter 1 Safely Delivered? Insights into Late
Nineteenth-Century Australian Maternity Care from Coronial Investigations
into Maternal Deaths, Madonna Grehan; Chapter 2 Pregnancy, Pathology and
Public Morals: Making Antenatal Care in Edinburgh Around 1900, Salim
Al-Gailani; Chapter 3 'The Peculiar and Complex Female Problem': The Church
of Scotland and Health Care for Unwed Mothers, 1900-1948, Janet Greenlees;
Chapter 4 Taking 'Advantage of the Facilities and Comforts ... Offered':
Women's Choice of Hospital Delivery in Interwar Edinburgh, Alison Nuttall;
Chapter 5 'What Women Want': Childbirth Services and Women's Activism in
New Zealand, 1900-1960, Linda Bryder; Chapter 6 'Twixt God and Geography:
The Development of Maternity Services in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Lindsey
Earner-Byrne; Chapter 7 Test Tubes and Turpitude: Medical Responses to the
Infertile Patient in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland, Gayle Davis; Chapter 8
Women's Experiences of the Maternity Services in Berkshire and Oxfordshire,
c. 1970-1990, Angela Davis; Chapter 9 From Muller to Johnson Controls:
Mothers and Workplace Health in the us, from Protective Labour Legislation
to Fetal Protection Policies, Allison L. Hepler;