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Midwifery and Medicine in Boston Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876 / Amalie M. Kass ; [new foreword by Scott Podolsky, M.D.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kass, Amalie M., 1928- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians.
- Obstetrics.
- Midwifery.
- Obstetrics--Massachusetts--History.
- Midwifery--Massachusetts--History.
- Physicians--Massachusetts--Biography.
- Massachusetts.
- Channing, Walter, 1786-1876.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource xviii, 386 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Northeastern University Press
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This first biography of the prominent obstetrician vividly depicts the life and career of a multi-faceted man and offers fresh perspectives on medicine, society, and women's reproductive lives in nineteenth-century America. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2002. With a new foreword by Scott Podolsky, M.D.
- Contents:
- Youth
- Medical studies
- Launching a career, 1811-1822
- Obstetrical practice
- The hospitals
- The education of physicians
- The middle years, 1822-1840
- Puerperal fever
- Obstetrical anesthesia
- Social reform
- "Action of a man's whole nature," 1840-1854
- The medical profession at mid-century
- Retirement and repose.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Reprint of 2002 edition with new foreword.
- OCLC:
- 1102420411
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