Nurse-midwifery
Subtitle: the birth of a new American profession
By: Laura E. Ettinger.
Series: Women, gender, and health
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780814210239; 9780814251508; 9780814291009
Subjects: Midwifery -- United States -- History.; Midwives -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: value: Conception: nurse-midwives and the professionalization of childbirth; value: Early labor pains, 1925-1940; value: Eastern Kentucky's frontier nursing service: Mary Breckinridge's mission, survival strategies, and race; value: New York City's Maternity Center Association: educational opportunities and urban constraints; value: Active labor, 1940-1960; value: Transitions: new directions, new limitations; value: Traditions: home birth in a high-tech age; value: Don't push: struggling to create a political strategy and professional identity; value: Epilogue: afterbirth: learning from the past, looking to the future.