The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital : a history / / author
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| Autore: |
Bryder Linda
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| Titolo: |
The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital : a history / / author
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| Pubblicazione: | Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1082 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women's health services - New Zealand - History - 20th century |
| Women's health services - Moral and ethical aspects - New Zealand | |
| Women's health services | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1 Childbirth Services in New Zealand, 1900-1939; 2 National Women's Hospital and the Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; 3 A Tripod: Patient Care, Research and Teaching, the 1950s to 1963; 4 A Woman's World: Mothers, Nurses and Midwives at National Women's, the 1950s to 1963; 5 From Premature Nursery to Paediatric Department, 1950s to 1963; 6 A Bright New Age: Advances in Reproductive Medicine, 1964-1980s; 7 The New Patient and Perinatal Medicine; 8 Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion; 9 Obstetrics and the Winds of Change, 1964-1980s |
| 10 Feminists, Midwives and National Women's Hospital11 A Hospital in Trouble, 1990-2004; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Natural childbirth and rooming-in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion: women's health and reproduction went through a revolution in the twentieth century as scientific advances confronted ethical and political dilemmas. In New Zealand, the major site for this revolution was National Women's Hospital. Established in Auckland in 1946, with a purpose-built building that opened in 1964, National Women's was the home of medical breakthroughs by Sir William (Bill) Liley and Sir Graham (Mont) Liggins; of the Lawson quintuplets and the ?glamorous gynaec |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital |
| ISBN: | 1-77558-726-6 |
| 1-77558-723-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464044003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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