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Birthing the West : mothers and midwives in the Rockies and Plains / Jennifer J. Hill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]Description: xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781496226853
  • 1496226852
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 618.2 23/eng/20211028
LOC classification:
  • RG652
Other classification:
  • HIS036090 | SOC028000
Contents:
Birth in the big open -- The expertise of women -- Midwives among us -- The practice of birth -- Death in the West -- Birth goes public -- Maternity homes and motherhood -- Conclusion: What we lost.
Summary: "Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains shows how women and mothers constructed citizens, and how public health entities usurped that role, with varied long-term impacts on women, men, families, community, and American identity"--
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library Nursing - beside IT Help desk on first floor RG652.H646.B578 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923002044671

Birth in the big open -- The expertise of women -- Midwives among us -- The practice of birth -- Death in the West -- Birth goes public -- Maternity homes and motherhood -- Conclusion: What we lost.

"Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains shows how women and mothers constructed citizens, and how public health entities usurped that role, with varied long-term impacts on women, men, families, community, and American identity"--

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