This book describes in fascinating detail the history of the use of
anesthesia in childbirth and in so doing offers a unique
perspective on the interaction between medical science and social
values. Dr. Donald Caton traces the responses of physicians and
their patients to the pain of childbirth from the popularization of
anesthesia to the natural childbirth movement and beyond. He finds
that physicians discovered what could be done to manage pain, and
patients decided what would be done. Dr. Caton discusses how
nineteenth-century physicians began to think and act like
scientists; how people learned to reject the belief that pain and
suffering are inevitable components of life; and how a later
generation came to think that pain may have important functions for
the individual and society. Finally he shows the extent to which
cultural and social values have influenced "scientific" medical
decisions.
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