TY  - BOOK
AU  - Córdova,Isabel M.
TI  - Pushing in silence: modernizing Puerto Rico and the medicalization of childbirth 
SN  - 9781477313633 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - RG518.P9 C67 2018
U1  - 618.20097295 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - History
KW  - Obstetrics
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -