About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780195056907ISBN:0195056906
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780195056907ISBN:0195056906
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195056907ISBN:0195056906
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Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 11/1988
ISBN-13:9780195056907ISBN:0195056906
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Softcover with page edges yellowing, owner's name and stamp on 1/2 title page. Hard to find. Solid copy with light external soiling. Unknown printing. 7.99" x 0.65" x 5.37". read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780195056907ISBN:0195056906
Description: New. 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 pra... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 30/06/1994
ISBN-13:9780195056907ISBN:0195056906
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