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Lying-In : A History of Childbirth in America, Expanded Edition
LyingIn A History of Childbirth in America Expanded Edition
Author: Richard Wertz, Dorothy Wertz
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the 1980’s. — Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300040876
ISBN-10: 0300040873
Publication Date: 9/10/1989
Pages: 302
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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