Lying-in
A history of childbirth in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6560232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard W Wertz, Dorothy C Wertz |
| Year | 1989 |
| Pages | 322 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Lying-in (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Yale University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| Open Library | OL2221296M |
| ISBN | 9780300040876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 200 |
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home birth movement of the 1980s. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. In a new chapter and epilogue, Richard and Dorothy Wertz discuss the recent focus on delivering perfect babies, with its emphasis on technology, prenatal testing, and Caesarean sections. They argue that there are many viable alternatives--including out of hospital births--in the search for the best birthing system
Childbirth · Maternal health services · Obstetrics · Social aspects · United States · Bibliography · Delivery · Goole (England) · History · History of Medicine · Local History · Midwifery · Natural childbirth · Nurse Midwives · Obstetric Delivery · Pregnant women · Social aspects of Obstetrics
Metaphors of Agony
Advocating for evidence in birth
Managing Mothers to Build Their Child's Worth
There Is No Place Like Home
Great expectations
Roar Like a Tiger on TV
Giving birth in Volos, Greece
Choosing Cesarean
Mighty Glad to Gasp in the Gas
Can't a mother sing the blues? Postpartum depression and the construction of motherhood in late 20th-century America
Sex and Death on Display
Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine
The national survey of women's health centers
Experiment and illusion in reproductive medicine
Mother-infant bonding
Historical perspectives on parental investment and childbearing
Defining reducible risk
Whose Values? Whose Risk? Exploring Decision Making About Trial of Labor After Cesarean
A Speculative Idea’
Domesticating Deathcare
Maternalism and the Promotion of Scientific Medicine During the Industrial Transformation of Appalachia, 1880-1930
The Nature of Woman
Grantley dick read and Sheila Kitzinger
Expertise and Sliding Scales
Women, Pregnancy, and Health Information Online
The Lingering Presence of Medical Definitions Among Women Committed to Natural Childbirth
Laboring Women, Coaching Men
Feminist Perspectives on Science
Uncovering Gynocentric Science
Delivering Subjects
Divisions of Labor
The Growth of Medical Authority
Authoritative Knowledge and Single Women's Unintentional Pregnancies, Abortions, Adoption, and Single Motherhood
Maximizing preparation for childbirth
Walking That Fine Line
Beyond Sexless Class and Classless Sex
Husbands' Participation in Childbirth
There Is No Miracle More Cruel Than This”
Reconfiguring the Hysterical Body
Maternity, Midwifery, and Ministers
Literature and Obstetrics
Backwards Medicine
Technology Knows Best
Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Literary-Medical Experimentation
Games that professionals play
Transformations in maternity services in Jamaica
Integration lay and nurse-midwifery into the U.S. and Canadian health care systems
Content of care by independent midwives
Ambiguous responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship
Calls to a home birth helpline
The contextual influence of professional culture
A ship upon a stormy sea
Because of the risks
Pregnancy, labor and body image in the United States
Medicalizing to demedicalize
Obstacles to the practice of licensed lay midwifery
Accounting for fetal death
The role of obstetrical rituals in the resolution of cultural anomaly
Watching the clock
Emergency contraception and morality
Childbirth and social class
Born to be a mother
Birth places
The social nature of natural childbirth
The goddess of the room”
The silencing of women in childbirth or Let's hear it from Bartholomew and the boys
Brief of 281 American Historians as Amici Curiae Supporting Appellees
Midwives in the United States
The Miracle Bearers
The sociocultural implications of modernizing childbirth among Greek women on the island of Rhodes
Midwifery in the Netherlands
Navajo childbirth in transition
Diagnostic Prescriptions
The Satisfactory Midwife Bag”
Understanding women's sleep management
The professional socialisation of midwives
From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra
Licensed lay midwifery and the medical model of childbirth
Delivering the 'new' Canadian midwifery
Breast milk and labour support
The sociology of childbirth
The Search for a Science of Infancy
Four years' experience with home birth by licensed midwives in Arizona
Race, Remarital Status, and Infertility in 1910
The History of American Medicine
The Explosion of Family History
Some Moral Issues in Public Problems of Reproduction
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery
The Politics of Childbirth
Working-Class Women, Middle-Class Women, and Models of Childbirth
Soviet Immigrant Mothers' Perceptions Regarding the First Childbearing Year
Comparisons of Strategies to Prevent Breast Cancer Mortality
Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health
The Effect of Childbirth Preparation on Women of Different Social Classes
The Continued Social Transformation of the Medical Profession
From home to hospital
Rooming-In
The Chapel and the Operating Room
Ex Utero
Living and Dying in Georgian London's Lying-In Hospitals
| Unique citing works | 157 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,26 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2024 (46) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 96 |