Brought to Bed - Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (Paperback, New Ed)

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present.
Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth places because they believed the increased medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable. Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did not immediately decline. She concludes that birthing women held considerable power in determining labor and delivery events as long as childbirth remained in the home. The move to the hospital in the twentieth century gave the medical profession the upper hand. Leavitt also discusses recent events in American obstetrics that illustrate how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1988
First published:	November 1988
Authors:	Judith Walzer Leavitt (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Women's Studies)
Dimensions:	217 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505690-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Midwifery > Birthing methods Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-505690-6
Barcode:	9780195056907

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