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Post-War Mothers - Childbirth Letters to Grantly Dick-Read, 1946-1956 (Hardcover, Translated)
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Post-War Mothers - Childbirth Letters to Grantly Dick-Read, 1946-1956 (Hardcover, Translated)
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Women's experience of childbirth in the mid-twentieth century,
revealed in their own words. For pregnant women in the 1930s and
1940s Dr. Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth
as the "normal" way to have babies, making drugs, instruments and
hospitalization unnecessary. His book Childbirth withoutFear, first
published in 1933, spoke of the joys of natural childbirth; women
from around the world wrote long, detailed, and poignant letters in
response, describing their own experiences in giving birth. This
edited collection of the correspondence affords a rare look at
childbirth experiences in the hospitals and birthing centers in
post-war America and Britain from the perspective of the patient,
as women discuss the way they were viewed bysociety, by hospitals,
and by physicians and nurses, and their own feelings on childbirth;
overall, the book provides an important opportunity to evaluate the
treatment of women in the 1940s and 1950s, the generation who gave
birth to the so-called "baby boomers." Professor MARY ALVEY THOMAS
teaches at Bentley College, Waltham.
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