Midwives, Society and Childbirth Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period By: Hilary Marland Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415133289, 0415133289 eText ISBN: 9781134785995, 1134785992 Edition: 1st Pages: 292 Copyright year: 2004 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134785995R90 Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric Download ebook: https://ouo.io/ATDxzhO
