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What a Blessing She Had Chloroform : The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present
What a Blessing She Had Chloroform The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present
Author: Donald Caton
In this fascinating history of the use of anesthesia in childbirth, Dr. Donald Caton offers a unique perspective on the interaction between medical science and social values. Tracing the responses of physicians and their patients to the pain of childbirth from the first use of anesthesia for labor in the 1840s to the natural childbirth movement ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300075977
ISBN-10: 0300075979
Publication Date: 6/10/1999
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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