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Author:

Ettinger, Laura Elizabeth.

Title:

Nurse-midwifery : the birth of a new American profession / Laura E. Ettinger.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Midwifery--United States--history
Midwives--United States--History.
Nurse Midwives--history--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Midwifery--history--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Women, gender, and health

ISBN:

9780814251508
0814251501

LCCN:

2006003984

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

LTAX046 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Centerville (Centerville)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)