Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/tyU9Zq The Rise and Fall of National Women's Hospital A History By: Linda Bryder Publisher: Auckland University Press Print ISBN: 9781869408091, 1869408098 eText ISBN: 9781775587248, 177558724X Format: EPUB Available from $ 8.00 USD SKU 9781775587248R30 In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Womenâs Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature of motherhood and womenâs health in 20th-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in, artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, sterilization and abortion: womenâs health and reproduction went through a revolution in the 20th century as scientific advances confronted ethical and political dilemmas. In New Zealand, the major site for this revolution was National Womenâs Hospital. Established in Auckland in 1946, with a purpose-built building that opened in 1964, National Womenâs was the home of medical breakthroughs scandals. This chronicle covers them all.
