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Coming home : how midwives changed birth / Wendy Kline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kline, Wendy, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midwifery--United States--History.
- Midwifery.
- Midwives--United States.
- Midwives.
- Childbirth--United States.
- Childbirth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- By the mid-20th century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the US: the practice of home birth & the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all US births took place in the hospital, & the trend was increasing. By 1970, the percentage of hospital births reached an all-time high, & the obstetrician, rather than the midwife, assumed nearly complete control over what had become a medicalized procedure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an explosion of new altrnative organizations, publications, & conferences cropped up, showing a very different demographic trend; by 1977, the percentage of out-of-hospital births had more than doubled. Drawing on archival materials & interviews with midwives, doctors, & home birth consumers, 'Coming Home' analyzes the ideas & values that led to this quiet revolution, & its long-term consequences for our understanding of birth, medicine, & culture.
- Contents:
- From hospital to home
- Back to bed : from hospital to home obstetrics in the city of Chicago
- Middle-class midwifery : transforming birth practices in suburban Washington, DC
- Psychedelic birth : the emergence of the hippie midwife
- The Bowland bust : medicine and the law in Santa Cruz, California
- From El Paso to Lexington : the formation of the Midwives Alliance of North America
- From professionalization to education : the creation of the Seattle Midwifery School
- Epilogue : in search of common ground.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed on July 19, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-023253-6
- 0-19-023254-4
- 0-19-023252-8
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