Córdova, Isabel M., <br/><br/>
Pushing in silence :  modernizing Puerto Rico and the medicalization of childbirth / 
Isabel M. Córdova. 
 - First edition. 
 - 234 pages :  illustration, map ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1. Phase One: Midwife-Assisted Home Births, 1948–1953 -- Chapter 2. Phase Two: Transitioning toward Hospital Births, 1954–1958 -- Chapter 3. Phase Three: Physician-Assisted Hospital Births, 1959–1965 -- Chapter 4. Phase Four: Medicalized Births, 1966–1979 -- Chapter 5. Phase Five: Novoparteras and a Technocratic, Litigation-Based Model of Birth, 1980–2000. 
<br/><br/> This history of evolving birthing practices in Puerto Rico reveals how dramatic transformations in childbirth resulted from broader economic, political, and cultural shifts toward a model of industrial nationhood. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781477313633 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477314128 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017003511 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Childbirth--History.--Puerto Rico<br/>Obstetrics--Social aspects--History.--Puerto Rico
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RG518.P9  / C67 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>618.20097295