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Author:   Jo Garcia ,  etc.
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780198272885

ISBN 10:   019827288
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   01 January 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Mothers and maternity policies in the 20th century, Jane Lewis; a maternity service for England and Wales - local authority maternity care in the inter-war period in Oxfordshire and Tottenham, Elizabeth Peretz; the engineering of childbirth - a new obstetric programme as reflected in British obstetric textbooks, 1960-1980, Eckart Schwarz; maintaining the independence of the midwifery profession - a continuing struggle, Sarah Robinson; strategies of the early childbirth movement - a case study of the National Childbirth Trust, Jenny Kitzinger; obstetric analgesia and the control of childbirth in 20th century Britain, Jennifer Beinart; learning about birth - parenthood and sex education in English secondary schools, Shirley Prendergast; labour relations - midwives and doctors on the labour ward, Jenny Kitzinger et al; parents and new-born babies in the labour ward, Jo Garcia and Sally Garforth; women's experiences of Caesarean delivery, Ann Oakley; fathers - the emergence of a new consumer group, Rosaline Barbour; recent debate on the place of birth, Rona Campbell; finding out about the views and experiences of maternity service users, Ann Jacoby and Ann Cartwright.

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