A history of midwifery in the United States : the midwife said fear not / Helen Varney, Joyce Beebe Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varney, Helen, author.

Thompson, Joyce Beebe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midwifery--United States--History.

Midwifery.

Midwives--United States--History.

Midwives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Springer Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by two of the professionís most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth.

Contents:

The Voices of Predecessor Midwives in Antiquity The Voices of Midwives in the Colonies (1607-1775) and Early History of the United States (1776-Mid-1800's); The Voices of Traditional African American Antebellum Slave Midwives (1619-1861); The Voices of Granny Midwives (Late 1800's-Mid-1900's); The Voices of Immigrant Midwives and Other Midwives in the Late 1800's and Early 1900's; Notes; Chapter 2: Silencing the Early Voices of Midwives: 1600's to 1800's; Advances in Knowledge and Exclusion of Midwives and Women from Learning; Midwifery in Europe

Study Abroad for Physicians and Their Takeover of Midwifery in the United States Development of Medical Schools and the Flexner Report; Women in Medicine; Professionalization of Medicine and the Specialty of Obstetrics; Pain Relief During Childbirth: Ether and Chloroform; Notes; Chapter 3: Silencing the Early Voices of Midwives (Late 1800's-Early 1900's); The "Midwife Problem"; Legislation/Rules/Regulations and the Practice of Midwifery; Nursing and Midwifery; The Bellevue School for Midwives; "Twilight Sleep"; Professionalization of Nursing, Nursing Education, and Public Health Nursing

Professionalization of Midwifery Needed to Survive Notes; Chapter 4: Silencing the Early Voices of Midwives (Late 1910's-Mid-1940's); Closure of the Bellevue School for Midwives; Restrictive Legislation; The Continuing Move into Hospitals; Silencing the Immigrant Japanese Sanba Midwives; Notes; Section II: History of Early Nurse-Midwifery Practice and Education in the United States (1920's-Early 1950's); Chapter 5: Nursing Roots; Florence Nightingale; Public Health Nursing; Public Health Policies, Programs, and Public Health Nursing; Children's Bureau; Prenatal Care; Maternity Center Association

Public Health Nurses as Midwives Sheppard-Towner Act; Notes; Chapter 6: The Nurse-Midwife Starts Practicing (1920's-Early 1950's); Frontier Nursing Service; Lobenstine Midwifery Clinic; Practice of Early Nurse-Midwifery Education Program Graduates (1925-1954); Family-Centered Maternity Care and Natural Childbirth; Notes; Chapter 7: Early Education for Nurse-Midwives (1920's-1954); Manhattan Midwifery School; Lobenstine/Maternity Center Association Midwifery School; Frontier Nursing School of Midwifery; Tuskegee School of Nurse-Midwifery

Dillard University Flint-Goodridge School of Nurse-Midwifery

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-8261-2538-7

OCLC:

932332626