1st Edition
The Medicalization of Obstetrics Personnel, Practice and Instruments
First published in 1996. Childbirth: Changing Ideas and Practices is intended to pro-vide readers with key primary sources and exemplary historio-graphical approaches through which they can more fully appreciate a variety of themes in British and American childbirth, mid-wifery, and obstetrics. The articles in this series are designed to serve as a resource for students and teachers in fields including history, women’s studies, human biology, sociology, and anthropology. They will also meet the socio-historical educational needs of pre-medical and nursing students and aid pre-professional, allied health, and midwifery instructors in their lesson preparations.
The Personnel and Practice What Birth Has Done for Doctors: A Historical View, The Regulation of English Midwives in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, The Regulation of English Midwives in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Smollett’s Defence of Dr. Smellie in The Critical Review, When and Why Were Male Physicians Employed as Accoucheurs? The Midwife: Her Future in the United States, Legislative Measures Against Maternal and Infant Mortality: The Midwife Practice Laws of the States and Territories of the United States, The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization, The New York Maternal Mortality Study: A Conflict of Professionalization, A Plea for a Pro-Maternity Hospital, The Limitations and Possibilities of Prenatal Care, Are We Satisfied with the Results of Ante-Natal Care? Prenatal Care and Its Evolution in America, The Uses of Expertise in Doctor-Patient Encounters During Pregnancy, A Case of Maternity: Paradigms of Women as Maternity Cases, Midwives in Transition: The Structure of a Clinical Revolution, The Instruments of Obstetrics, The Technocratic Model of Birth, On the Contractions of the Uterus throughout Pregnancy: Their Physiological Effects and their Value in the Diagnosis of Pregnancy, The Study of the Infant’s Body and of the Pregnant Womb by the Rontgen Rays, The History of the Obstetric Forceps, The Prophylactic Forceps Operation, A Criticism of Certain Tendencies in American Obstetrics, The Classification of the Fetal Heart Rate: II. A Revised Working Classification, Innovation in Medical Practice: Obstetricians and the Induction of Labour in Britain, Prediction of Pregnancy Complications: An Application of the Biopsychosocial Model, Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction
Biography
Phillip K. Wilson
