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Delivered by Midwives - African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South (Paperback)
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Delivered by Midwives - African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South (Paperback)
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Catchin' babies was merely one aspect of the broad role of African
American midwives in the twentieth-century South. Yet, little has
been written about the type of care they provided or how midwifery
and maternity care evolved under the increasing presence of local
and federal health care structures. Using evidence from nursing,
medical, and public health journals of the era; primary sources
from state and county departments of health; and personal accounts
from varied practitioners, Delivered by Midwives: African American
Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South provides a new perspective
on the childbirth experience of African American women and their
maternity care providers during the twentieth century. Author Jenny
M. Luke moves beyond the usual racial dichotomies to expose a more
complex shift in childbirth culture, revealing the changing
expectations and agency of African American women in their
rejection of a two-tier maternity care system and their demands to
be part of an inclusive, desegregated society. Moreover, Luke
illuminates valuable aspects of a maternity care model previously
discarded in the name of progress. High maternal and infant
mortality rates led to the passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity
and Infancy Protection Act in 1921. This marked the first attempt
by the federal government to improve the welfare of mothers and
babies. Almost a century later, concern about maternal mortality
and persistent racial disparities have forced a reassessment.
Elements of the long-abandoned care model are being reincorporated
into modern practice, answering current health care dilemmas by
heeding lessons from the past.
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