TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ettinger,Laura Elizabeth
TI  - Nurse-midwifery: the birth of a new American profession
T2  - Women, gender, and health
SN  - 9780814251508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - RG950 .E77 2006
U1  - 618.2 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Midwifery
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Local
KW  - Midwives
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006003984.html
ER  -