Lying-in : a history of childbirth in America /
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home birth movement of the 1980s. Widely praised when it was first published in 1...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1989
New Haven : 1989 New Haven : 1989 |
| Edition: | Expanded ed |
| Series: | Studies in the life of women
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