Paula A Michaels
Biographic Data
| ID | 1435602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula A Michaels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula A |
| FAMILY NAME | Michaels |
| SIGNATURE | MICHAELS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2877-5495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An unbreakable friendship
Locked in a struggle with the United States after its 1959 revolution, Cuba was a natural Soviet ally in the Cold War. The USSR offered Cuba lavish aid, including in the realm of medicine and health. The 1960s saw dozens of public health officials, medical instructors, and clinicians arrive on the island to help improve the health and wellbeing of Cuban workers and peasants. This article plumbs Russian archives and published Cuban and Soviet medi…
Soviet Medical Internationalism amid Destalinization, 1953–1958
This article reconstructs the story of the Soviet Union’s medical internationalism amid the early years of destalinization, when it re-engaged more actively in the global health community. How did the USSR attempt to leverage medicine as a tool of soft power in both multilateral and bilateral relations? Based on records of the USSR Ministry of Health and the Medical Workers Union, as well as newspapers and other published sources, it analyzes wha…
Wars Begin in the Minds of Men’
This article analyzes the history of psychiatrists’ entwined efforts to understand the psychological effect of nuclear war’s threat and to disseminate those findings as a contribution to the antinuclear movement. The sub-specialty of ‘nuclear psychiatry’ sought: (1) to expose how avoidance, denial, and dehumanization set the conditions for the arms race and, potentially, nuclear war; (2) to explain the psychological consequences of nuclear war’s …
Coming Home
Reviewed by: Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth by Wendy Kline Paula A. Michaels Wendy Kline. Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-19-023251-1). In Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth, Wendy Kline offers an engaging read about an important chapter in the feminist health movement and the history of childbirth. The fight to revive midwifery and home birth in the …
Childbirth and Trauma, 1940s–1980s
This article analyzes trauma in mid-twentieth century hospital births, focusing on the United States, but with additional evidence drawn from Great Britain and France. As many as half of women today experience childbirth as traumatic and no evidence suggests that the figure was lower a half-century ago. Drawing on women's birth narratives and psychiatric literature, this article highlights the striking consistency over time in how women describe …
Socialist Science Across Borders
Cet article analyse les relations médicales soviéto-tchécoslovaques pendant la guerre froide à travers une étude de cas d’une approche de la gestion de la douleur lors de la grossesse. Développée en URSS et popularisée en Occident sous le nom de méthode Lamaze, la psychoprophylaxie utilise des techniques de respiration et de relaxation pour combattre ces douleurs. Par loyauté, les Tchécoslovaques se sont associés aux efforts soviétiques pour prou…
The Sounds and Sights of Natural Childbirth
Film and sound recordings are a ubiquitous part of the antenatal preparation courses that serve as a rite of passage to parenthood in Western Europe and North America. This article analyses a sample of these didactic tools used in classes from the 1950s to the 1980s, the heyday of the natural childbirth movement. These audio-visual artefacts both reflected and conditioned expectations for women's behaviour during labour and birth through their re…
Pouvoir et santé en Ouzbékistan
Sophie Hohmann's study of medicine and public health in Uzbekistan sits at the interface of history and ethnography. In bringing together the stories of the pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and post-Sovi
Comrades in the Labor Room
IN JUNE 1951, SOVIET PROFESSOR A. P. Nikolaev traveled to Paris from Leningrad to participate in the International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where he gave a presentation on the work that he and others had been doing on the psychoprophylactic method (PPM) of childbirth. Departing from the Western trend toward obstetric anesthetics and analgesics, PPM sought to eliminate or alleviate the pain of childbirth through psychological conditi…
Make Room for Daddy
Already a leading figure in the history of childbirth, Judith Walzer Leavitt makes a significant contribution to the social history of medicine with her examination of an understudied, but distinguishing feature of modern American birth: the role of the father. Leavitt's accessible and engagingly written social history of the shifting role of men in childbirth puts the voices of these men and the women they supported front and center. The author …
Navigating Treacherous Waters
If the Subaltern Speaks in the Woods and Nobody's Listening, Does He Make a Sound
As the present collection of articles makes clear, there is no shortage of interpretations of or reactions to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. While nothing drains the laughter out of a joke faster than academic analysis, these articles succeed in raising differing, thought-provoking perspectives on the meaning and significance of one of the biggest cultural phenomena of 2006. And although their…
Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963
Kim Taylor, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963: A Medicine of Revolution , London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. 256. £60. ISBN 041534512X. Kim Taylor's Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–63 examines how the state, high-ranking medical administrators and medical writers fashioned and deployed for political purposes what came to be known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). That political and medical leaders made medi…
Mikhail Kalatozov's the red tent
Veiled Empire
Curative Powers
Motherhood, Patriotism, and Ethnicity
This article focuses on anti-abortion discourse and legislation in Kazakhstan where like Russia the number of abortions rose steadily during the 1920s. Increasing economic strain growing awareness of the availability of surgical abortion and changing morals contributed to this increase. Thus the very success of legalized abortion led to its downfall as women took their reproductive capabilities into their own hands and came into conflict with the…
Medical Propaganda andCultural Revolution in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1928-41
Women in Muslim Societies
Study after study of women in the Muslim world has focused primarily on Middle Eastern societies, usually emphasizing the sexual ideology of a reified Islam. This book rounds out that view, exploring the status, roles, and contributions of Muslim women not only in the Middle East, but also in Africa and Asia, including post-Soviet Central Asia.
Medical Traditions, Kazak Women, and Soviet Medical Politics to 1941
In 1929 a young Communist activist named A. Nurkhat traversed Central Asia gathering information about grassroots-level party social work and propaganda among indigenous women. An Uzbek woman who converted to Bolshevism, Nurkhat accepted the social and political reasons for the regime's push to win the support of local women in its struggle against traditional ways of life. Seeking to document these efforts, she traveled to nomadic regions and fo…
Chastie (Paradise) [Kazakhstan] 1995 23 min VHS Dir
Chastie (Paradise) [Kazakhstan] 1995 23 min VHS Dir: Sergey Dvortsevoy. Prod: Gobi (Moscow) and Kazakhfilm (Almaty) First Run/Icarus, 153 Waverly Place, Sixth Floor, NY, NY 10014. Tel: 800–876-1710. Fax: 212–989-7649. Kazakh with English subtitles. - Volume 31 Issue 2
Mongol Hordes
Mongol Hordes: Storm From the East. Four-part series. 1993. VHS. Exec. Prod: Robert Marshall. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ, 08543-2053. Tel: 800-257-5126; Fax: (609) 275-3767. - Volume 28 Issue 1
The Sounds and Sights of Natural Childbirth
Film and sound recordings are a ubiquitous part of the antenatal preparation courses that serve as a rite of passage to parenthood in Western Europe and North America. This article analyses a sample of these didactic tools used in classes from the 1950s to the 1980s, the heyday of the natural childbirth movement. These audio-visual artefacts both reflected and conditioned expectations for women's behaviour during labour and birth through their re…
Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963
Kim Taylor, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963: A Medicine of Revolution , London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. 256. £60. ISBN 041534512X. Kim Taylor's Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–63 examines how the state, high-ranking medical administrators and medical writers fashioned and deployed for political purposes what came to be known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). That political and medical leaders made medi…
Childbirth and Trauma, 1940s–1980s
This article analyzes trauma in mid-twentieth century hospital births, focusing on the United States, but with additional evidence drawn from Great Britain and France. As many as half of women today experience childbirth as traumatic and no evidence suggests that the figure was lower a half-century ago. Drawing on women's birth narratives and psychiatric literature, this article highlights the striking consistency over time in how women describe …
Comrades in the Labor Room
IN JUNE 1951, SOVIET PROFESSOR A. P. Nikolaev traveled to Paris from Leningrad to participate in the International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where he gave a presentation on the work that he and others had been doing on the psychoprophylactic method (PPM) of childbirth. Departing from the Western trend toward obstetric anesthetics and analgesics, PPM sought to eliminate or alleviate the pain of childbirth through psychological conditi…
Motherhood, Patriotism, and Ethnicity
This article focuses on anti-abortion discourse and legislation in Kazakhstan where like Russia the number of abortions rose steadily during the 1920s. Increasing economic strain growing awareness of the availability of surgical abortion and changing morals contributed to this increase. Thus the very success of legalized abortion led to its downfall as women took their reproductive capabilities into their own hands and came into conflict with the…
Medical Propaganda andCultural Revolution in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1928-41
Socialist Science Across Borders
Cet article analyse les relations médicales soviéto-tchécoslovaques pendant la guerre froide à travers une étude de cas d’une approche de la gestion de la douleur lors de la grossesse. Développée en URSS et popularisée en Occident sous le nom de méthode Lamaze, la psychoprophylaxie utilise des techniques de respiration et de relaxation pour combattre ces douleurs. Par loyauté, les Tchécoslovaques se sont associés aux efforts soviétiques pour prou…
Make Room for Daddy
Already a leading figure in the history of childbirth, Judith Walzer Leavitt makes a significant contribution to the social history of medicine with her examination of an understudied, but distinguishing feature of modern American birth: the role of the father. Leavitt's accessible and engagingly written social history of the shifting role of men in childbirth puts the voices of these men and the women they supported front and center. The author …
Medical Traditions, Kazak Women, and Soviet Medical Politics to 1941
In 1929 a young Communist activist named A. Nurkhat traversed Central Asia gathering information about grassroots-level party social work and propaganda among indigenous women. An Uzbek woman who converted to Bolshevism, Nurkhat accepted the social and political reasons for the regime's push to win the support of local women in its struggle against traditional ways of life. Seeking to document these efforts, she traveled to nomadic regions and fo…
Mongol Hordes
Mongol Hordes: Storm From the East. Four-part series. 1993. VHS. Exec. Prod: Robert Marshall. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ, 08543-2053. Tel: 800-257-5126; Fax: (609) 275-3767. - Volume 28 Issue 1
Chastie (Paradise) [Kazakhstan] 1995 23 min VHS Dir
Chastie (Paradise) [Kazakhstan] 1995 23 min VHS Dir: Sergey Dvortsevoy. Prod: Gobi (Moscow) and Kazakhfilm (Almaty) First Run/Icarus, 153 Waverly Place, Sixth Floor, NY, NY 10014. Tel: 800–876-1710. Fax: 212–989-7649. Kazakh with English subtitles. - Volume 31 Issue 2
Women in Muslim Societies
Study after study of women in the Muslim world has focused primarily on Middle Eastern societies, usually emphasizing the sexual ideology of a reified Islam. This book rounds out that view, exploring the status, roles, and contributions of Muslim women not only in the Middle East, but also in Africa and Asia, including post-Soviet Central Asia.
Medical Traditions, Kazak Women, and Soviet Medical Politics to 1941
In 1929 a young Communist activist named A. Nurkhat traversed Central Asia gathering information about grassroots-level party social work and propaganda among indigenous women. An Uzbek woman who converted to Bolshevism, Nurkhat accepted the social and political reasons for the regime's push to win the support of local women in its struggle against traditional ways of life. Seeking to document these efforts, she traveled to nomadic regions and fo…
Medical Propaganda andCultural Revolution in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1928-41
Motherhood, Patriotism, and Ethnicity
This article focuses on anti-abortion discourse and legislation in Kazakhstan where like Russia the number of abortions rose steadily during the 1920s. Increasing economic strain growing awareness of the availability of surgical abortion and changing morals contributed to this increase. Thus the very success of legalized abortion led to its downfall as women took their reproductive capabilities into their own hands and came into conflict with the…
Curative Powers
Veiled Empire
Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963
Kim Taylor, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963: A Medicine of Revolution , London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. 256. £60. ISBN 041534512X. Kim Taylor's Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–63 examines how the state, high-ranking medical administrators and medical writers fashioned and deployed for political purposes what came to be known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). That political and medical leaders made medi…
Mikhail Kalatozov's the red tent
If the Subaltern Speaks in the Woods and Nobody's Listening, Does He Make a Sound
As the present collection of articles makes clear, there is no shortage of interpretations of or reactions to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. While nothing drains the laughter out of a joke faster than academic analysis, these articles succeed in raising differing, thought-provoking perspectives on the meaning and significance of one of the biggest cultural phenomena of 2006. And although their…
Navigating Treacherous Waters
Comrades in the Labor Room
IN JUNE 1951, SOVIET PROFESSOR A. P. Nikolaev traveled to Paris from Leningrad to participate in the International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where he gave a presentation on the work that he and others had been doing on the psychoprophylactic method (PPM) of childbirth. Departing from the Western trend toward obstetric anesthetics and analgesics, PPM sought to eliminate or alleviate the pain of childbirth through psychological conditi…
Make Room for Daddy
Already a leading figure in the history of childbirth, Judith Walzer Leavitt makes a significant contribution to the social history of medicine with her examination of an understudied, but distinguishing feature of modern American birth: the role of the father. Leavitt's accessible and engagingly written social history of the shifting role of men in childbirth puts the voices of these men and the women they supported front and center. The author …
The Sounds and Sights of Natural Childbirth
Film and sound recordings are a ubiquitous part of the antenatal preparation courses that serve as a rite of passage to parenthood in Western Europe and North America. This article analyses a sample of these didactic tools used in classes from the 1950s to the 1980s, the heyday of the natural childbirth movement. These audio-visual artefacts both reflected and conditioned expectations for women's behaviour during labour and birth through their re…
Pouvoir et santé en Ouzbékistan
Sophie Hohmann's study of medicine and public health in Uzbekistan sits at the interface of history and ethnography. In bringing together the stories of the pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and post-Sovi
Socialist Science Across Borders
Cet article analyse les relations médicales soviéto-tchécoslovaques pendant la guerre froide à travers une étude de cas d’une approche de la gestion de la douleur lors de la grossesse. Développée en URSS et popularisée en Occident sous le nom de méthode Lamaze, la psychoprophylaxie utilise des techniques de respiration et de relaxation pour combattre ces douleurs. Par loyauté, les Tchécoslovaques se sont associés aux efforts soviétiques pour prou…
Childbirth and Trauma, 1940s–1980s
This article analyzes trauma in mid-twentieth century hospital births, focusing on the United States, but with additional evidence drawn from Great Britain and France. As many as half of women today experience childbirth as traumatic and no evidence suggests that the figure was lower a half-century ago. Drawing on women's birth narratives and psychiatric literature, this article highlights the striking consistency over time in how women describe …
Coming Home
Reviewed by: Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth by Wendy Kline Paula A. Michaels Wendy Kline. Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-19-023251-1). In Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth, Wendy Kline offers an engaging read about an important chapter in the feminist health movement and the history of childbirth. The fight to revive midwifery and home birth in the …
Wars Begin in the Minds of Men’
This article analyzes the history of psychiatrists’ entwined efforts to understand the psychological effect of nuclear war’s threat and to disseminate those findings as a contribution to the antinuclear movement. The sub-specialty of ‘nuclear psychiatry’ sought: (1) to expose how avoidance, denial, and dehumanization set the conditions for the arms race and, potentially, nuclear war; (2) to explain the psychological consequences of nuclear war’s …
Soviet Medical Internationalism amid Destalinization, 1953–1958
This article reconstructs the story of the Soviet Union’s medical internationalism amid the early years of destalinization, when it re-engaged more actively in the global health community. How did the USSR attempt to leverage medicine as a tool of soft power in both multilateral and bilateral relations? Based on records of the USSR Ministry of Health and the Medical Workers Union, as well as newspapers and other published sources, it analyzes wha…
An unbreakable friendship
Locked in a struggle with the United States after its 1959 revolution, Cuba was a natural Soviet ally in the Cold War. The USSR offered Cuba lavish aid, including in the realm of medicine and health. The 1960s saw dozens of public health officials, medical instructors, and clinicians arrive on the island to help improve the health and wellbeing of Cuban workers and peasants. This article plumbs Russian archives and published Cuban and Soviet medi…
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