Title: Power and the profession of obstetrics /
Authors: Arney, William Ray.
Date: 1982
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Physical description: xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Introduction -- Part one. Forming the profession. Midwifery vs. obstetrics : themes in the development of a profession ; Residual normalcy and pathological potential -- Part two. Re-forming the profession. Monitoring and surveillance : a new order of obstetrical control ; Maternal-infant bonding : monitoring and the problem of falling in love with your child ; Medicine, ethics, and the reformulation of the doctor-patient relationship ; Modern women and modern obstetricians
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Midwifery.; Midwives.; Obstetrics--Practice.; Obstetrics--Social aspects.; Physician and patient.; Power (Social sciences)