01781cam a2200361 i 4500 19470449 OSt 20210413190944.0 170127t20182018txuab b s001 0 eng c 2017003511 9781477313633 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477314128 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781477314135 (library e-book) 9781477314142 (non-library e-book) TxU/DLC eng TxU rda DLC pcc RG518.P9 C67 2018 618.20097295 23 Córdova, Isabel M., author. Pushing in silence : modernizing Puerto Rico and the medicalization of childbirth / Isabel M. Córdova. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018. 234 pages : illustration, map ; 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Childbirth Puerto Rico History. Obstetrics Social aspects Puerto Rico History. lcc 6 295509 295509 0 0 lcc 0 0 12 12 7 2021-04-12 115 49.99 0 RG518.P9 C67 2018 50000003279790 2021-04-12 00:00:00 c. 1 49.99 2021-04-12 6