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Lying-in
Obstetric Delivery
Maternal health services
Natural childbirth
Midwifery
History of Medicine
Obstetrics
Pregnant women
Childbirth
Local History
Bibliography
Social aspects
History
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home birth movement of the 1980s. Widely praised when it was first published in 1…
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