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During the twentieth century modern births in America came to involve mostly male physicians, hospitals, technological interventions, and quick, routine procedures. In a unique and detailed historical study, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, Laura E. Ettinger fills a void with the first book-length documentation of the emergence of American nurse-midwifery. This occupation developed in the 1920s involving nurses who took advanced training in midwifery. In Nurse-Midwifery, Ettinger shows how nurse-midwives in New York City; eastern Kentucky; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other places both rebelled against and served as agents of a nationwide professionalization of doctors and medicalization of childbirth. Nurse-Midwifery reveals the limitations that nurses, physicians, and nurse-midwives placed on the profession of nurse-midwifery from the outset because of the professional interests of nursing and medicine. The book argues that nurse-midwives challenged what scholars have called the "male medical model" of childbirth, but the cost of the compromises they made to survive was that nurse-midwifery did not become the kind of independent, autonomous profession it might have been. Today, nurse-midwives have assumed a larger role in mainstream health care than before, yet they are still marginalized. As in the past, nurse-midwivesâ futures will depend on continuing changes in American attitudes about childbirth, health care, and women professionals as well as on their own ability to adapt to the changes. The history of the profession suggests that nurse-midwives will continue to navigate in difficult waters in a middle space between the mainstream and the margins of medicine and between the nursing profession and midwifery traditions.
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9780814210239 | Ohio State Univ Pr, July 12, 2006, cover price $74.95
9780814291009 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, July 7, 2006), cover price $14.95
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9780814251508 | Ohio State Univ Pr, July 7, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: During the twentieth century modern births in America came to involve mostly male physicians, hospitals, technological interventions, and quick, routine procedures.
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9780415931502 | Routledge, March 27, 2006, cover price $150.00
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9780415931519 | Routledge, March 27, 2006, cover price $49.95
Product Description: In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for empire. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women...read more
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9780252030055 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 10, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for empire.
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9780252072475 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 5, 2005, cover price $28.00
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9780300040937 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book by a demographer and medical sociologist provides an overview of the history and status of midwifery in America.
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9780837198682 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 1978, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of midwifery in the United States and its decline as the result of the development of new obstetrical techniques and its current revival
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9780837198248 | Reprint edition (Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 1978), cover price $64.00 | About this edition: A well-documented account of the decline of midwifery in America and the rise of obstetric specialization calls attention to recent interest in the concept of nurse-midwifery
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