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Ettinger, Laura Elizabeth

Nurse-midwifery the birth of a new American profession Laura E. Ettinger. - Columbus Ohio State University Press c2006. - xvi, 269 p. ill. 24 cm. - Women, gender, and health .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.

Conception: nurse-midwives and the professionalization of childbirth -- Early labor pains, 1925-1940 -- Eastern Kentucky's frontier nursing service: Mary Breckinridge's mission, survival strategies, and race -- New York City's Maternity Center Association: educational opportunities and urban constraints -- Active labor, 1940-1960 -- Transitions: new directions, new limitations -- Traditions: home birth in a high-tech age -- Don't push: struggling to create a political strategy and professional identity -- Epilogue: afterbirth: learning from the past, looking to the future.

ISBN: 9780814251508 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814251501 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006003984

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101285028 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Midwifery--History.--United States
Midwives--History.--United States

LC Class. No.: RG950 / .E77 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 618.2 / E853n

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2006 J-349 WY 11 AA1 / E85n 2006