Title: The Politics of maternity care : services for childbearing women in twentieth-century Britain /
Authors: Garcia, Jo, 1950-; Kilpatrick, Robert; Richards, Martin, 1940 January 26-
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Maternal health services Great Britain History; Obstetrics Great Britain History; Maternal health services; Obstetrics; Geburtshilfe; Mutterschaftshilfe; Moederschapszorg.; Verloskundige zorg.; Maternal Health Services history; Obstetrics history; Great Britain; Großbritannien; United Kingdom
Abstract: Maternity care was the subject of intense campaigning early in this century. This collection of essays brings together historical and social perspectives to put these debates in context and chart how the present situation arose.
Contents: Machine derived contents note: 1. Public Debate and the Maternity Services in the Inter-War Years, Jane Lewis -- 2. The Engineering of Childbirth: A New Obstetric Program as Reflected in Obstetric Textbooks 1960-1980, Eckart Schwarz -- 3. The Recent History of the Midwifery Profession, Sarah Robinson -- 4. Strategies of the Early Childbirth Movement: A Case Study of the National Childbirth Trust, Jenny Kitzinger -- 5. Obstetric Analgesia and the Control of Childbirth in Twentieth Century Britain, Jenny Beinart -- 6. Learning About Birth: Parenthood and Sex Education in English Secondary Schools, Shirley Prendergast and Alan Proust -- 7. Labour Relations: Midwives and Doctors on the Labour Ward, Jenny Kitzinger, Josephine Green, and Vanessa Coupland -- 8. Parents and Newborn in the Labour Ward, Jo Garcia and Sally Garforth -- 9. Elective Delivery: Attitudes and Responses of Parents and Children, Ann Oakley and Martin Richards -- 10. Fathers: The Emergence of a New Consumer Group, Rose Barbour -- 11. Recent Debate of the Place of Birth, Rona Campbell and Alison Macfarlane -- 12. Finding out about the Views and Experiences of Maternity Service Users, Ann Jacoby and Ann Cartwright -- 13. Pressure Groups and Maternity Care, Lyn Durward and Ruth Evans -- 14. Black Women and the Maternity Services, Ann Phoenix -- 15. Screening Today, Margaret Reid -- 16. How Obstetrics Might Change, Wendy Savage.