TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ettinger,Laura Elizabeth
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession 
SN  - 9780814272510
AV  - RG950 .E77 2006
U1  - 618.2 22
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Midwifery
KW  - history
KW  - United States
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Nurse Midwives
KW  - Midwives
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28184/
ER  -