Nurse-Midwifery The Birth of a New American Profession / Laura E. Ettinger.
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TextPublisher: Ohio State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 269 p.) : illISBN: 9780814272510; 0814272517Subject(s): Midwifery -- history -- United States | History, 20th Century -- United States | Nurse Midwives -- history -- United States | Midwives -- United States -- History | Midwifery -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 618.2 LOC classification: RG950 | .E77 2006Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.
Conception: nurse-midwives and the professionalization of childbirth -- Early labor pains, 1925-1940 -- Eastern Kentucky's frontier nursing service: Mary Breckinridge's mission, survival strategies, and race -- New York City's Maternity Center Association: educational opportunities and urban constraints -- Active labor, 1940-1960 -- Transitions: new directions, new limitations -- Traditions: home birth in a high-tech age -- Don't push: struggling to create a political strategy and professional identity -- Epilogue: afterbirth: learning from the past, looking to the future.
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