Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period /
Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in 20th century.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| ISBN: | 0585452792 9780585452791 9780203435892 0203435893 9780415133289 0415133289 9781134786008 113478600X 9781134785957 113478595X 9781134785995 1134785992 9781138868212 1138868213 1280319364 9781280319365 9786610319367 6610319367 |
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Table of Contents:
- The social evolution of preindustrial American cities, 1700-1820 / Gary B. Nash
- Strumpets and misogynists : brothel "riots" an the transformation of prostitution in Antebellum New York City / Timothy J. Gilfoyle
- The enemy within : some effects of foreign immigrants on Antebellum Southern cities / Randall M. Miller
- The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan
- The centrality of the horse in the nineteenth-century American city / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr
- Underworlds and underdogs : big Tim Sullivan and metropolitan politics in New York, 1889-1913 / Daniel Czitrom
- The "poor man's friend" : saloonkeepers, workers, and the code of reciprocity in U.S. barrooms, 1870-1920 / Madelon Powers
- Leisure and labor / Kathy Peiss
- Chicago's 1919 race riot : ethnicity, class, and urban violence / Dominic A. Pacyga
- Music and mass culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles / George J. Saanchez
- The new deal in Dallas / Roger Biles
- Harold and Dutch : a comparative look at the first Black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch
- Blacks and hispanics in multicultural America : a Miami case study / Raymond A. Mohl
- Bold new city or built-up 'burb? Redefining contemporary suburbia / William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock
- New perspectives on American urban history / Raymond A. Mohl.