Nurse-Midwifery : The Birth of a New American Profession / / Laura E. Ettinger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163940603321
• Autore: Ettinger Laura Elizabeth <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006; ©2006
• ISBN: 0-8142-7251-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 269 p.) : : ill.
• Disciplina: 618.2
• Soggetti: Midwifery - history - United States; History, 20th Century - United States; Midwives - history - United States; Midwives - United States - History; Midwifery - United States - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.