Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780190232511 |
ISBN 10 | 019023251X |
Author | Dema G Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine Wendy Kline |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | Coming Home tells the story of how a significant number of parents in postwar America opted out of the standardized medicated hospital birth and recast home birth as a legitimate and desirable choice. |
About the Author | Wendy Kline is professor and Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine in the Department of History at Purdue University. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom and Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave. |
Publication Date | 2019-01-16 |
Number of Pages | 264 pages |
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
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