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Birth Chairs, Midwives and Medicine
Birth Chairs Midwives and Medicine
Author: Amanda Carson Banks
There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives. Then societal changes in attitudes toward women and the practice of medicine made birthing a province of the male-dominated medical profession. — In Birt...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781578061723
ISBN-10: 1578061725
Publication Date: 10/1999
Pages: 154
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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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