LEADER 04344nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910815552403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-028160-X 010 $a9786610523696 010 $a1-4237-3638-9 010 $a1-60129-721-1 010 $a1-280-52369-7 010 $a0-19-802091-0 024 7 $a2027/heb04403 035 $a(CKB)1000000000397019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116390 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162960 035 $a(PQKB)10615097 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241250 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241250 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10087134 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52369 035 $a(OCoLC)475955786 035 $a(dli)HEB04403 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005549283 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000397019 100 $a19870319d1986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBrought to bed $echildbearing in America, 1750 to 1950 /$fJudith Walzer Leavitt 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1986 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-19-505690-6 311 0 $a0-19-503843-6 320 $aIncludes bibliography: p. [219]-261 and index. 327 $aIntro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "Under the Shadow of Maternity": Childbirth and Women's Lives in America -- 2 "Science" Enters the Birthing Room: The Impact of Physician Obstetrics -- 3 "Overcivilization and Maternity": Differences in Women's Childbirth Experiences -- 4 "Only a Woman Can Know": The Role of Gender in the Birthing Room -- 5 "The Greatest Blessing of This Age": Pain Relief in Obstetrics -- 6 Why Women Suffer So: Meddlesome Midwifery and Scrupulous Cleanliness -- 7 "Alone Among Strangers": Birth Moves to the Hospital -- 8 Decision-Making and the Process of Change -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Chronology of Events in Childbirth History -- Glossary of Medical Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z. 330 $aBased on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth places because they believed the increased medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable. Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did not immediately decline. She concludes that birthing women held considerable power in determining labor and delivery events as long as childbirth remained in the home. The move to the hospital in the twentieth century gave the medical profession the upper hand. Leavitt also discusses recent events in American obstetrics that illustrate how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth. 606 $aObstetrics$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aObstetrics$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aObstetrics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChildbirth$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aChildbirth$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChildbirth$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aObstetrics$xHistory 615 0$aObstetrics$xHistory 615 0$aObstetrics$xHistory 615 0$aChildbirth$xHistory 615 0$aChildbirth$xHistory 615 0$aChildbirth$xHistory 676 $a618.2/00973 676 $a618.200973 700 $aLeavitt$b Judith Walzer$0537417 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815552403321 996 $aBrought to bed$9918263 997 $aUNINA