Childbirth: The medicalization of obstetricsTwenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate. |
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Contents
A Historical View | 3 |
The Regulation of English Midwives in the Sixteenth | 21 |
The Regulation of English Midwives in the Eighteenth | 32 |
Smolletts Defence of Dr Smellie in The Critical Review | 43 |
Her Future in the United States | 65 |
A Crisis | 96 |
A Conflict | 110 |
A Plea for a ProMaternity Hospital | 137 |
The Structure of a Clinical | 234 |
The Technocratic Model of Birth | 247 |
The Study of the Infants Body and of the Pregnant Womb | 295 |
The History of the Obstetric Forceps | 311 |
The Prophylactic Forceps Operation | 320 |
A Criticism of Certain Tendencies in American Obstetrics | 331 |
An Application of | 353 |
The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics | 361 |
Are We Satisfied with the Results of AnteNatal Care? | 147 |
Prenatal Care and Its Evolution in America | 157 |
The Uses of Expertise in DoctorPatient Encounters | 199 |
Paradigms of Women as Maternity | 209 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Childbirth: The medicalization of obstetrics Volume 2 of Childbirth: Changing Ideas and Practices in Britain and America 1600 to the Present, Philip K. Wilson, ISBN 0815322356, 9780815322351 |
| Editor | Philip K. Wilson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0815322313, 9780815322313 |
| Length | 396 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Sociology / General |
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