January 2025

Chapter 8 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

word count 3715 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Eight ~ 2001 – 2004: The Surgical Fix At the beginning of the 21st millennium, a small but influential group of obstetricians began to openly question the biology of vaginal birth. This wasn’t the first time that an obstetrician had questioned the basic character of the female reproductive […]

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Chapter 7 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

word count ~ 3860 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Seven The Seventies – paradigm shift par excellence! To make it easier to follow the events of this 30-year era, lets considered the story decade-by-decade, beginning with 1970s. In the early 1970s there were no less than three new kids on the block — electronic fetal monitoring, […]

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Chapter 6 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

Word count ~ 2050 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Six Within just a few years, the promise of 1910 came to pass – organized medicine did train a large number of obstetrical surgeons to replace midwives, and these newly minted physicians took over the care of healthy childbearing women. We also have to admit that the […]

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Chapter 5 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

Word count 1824 Chapters Five Twentieth-Century Birth  ~ An Unofficial century-long Medical Experiment with more than a 100-year run The 20th century medicalization of labor and birth in the US was remarkable more for scale than substance. It systemized the complete loss of physiological management and eliminated important attributes such as ‘patience with nature’ and […]

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Chapter 4: draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 12, 2025

Word Count 2901 ~ Jan 17 2025 Chapter 4: draft ~ The Exclusive Obstetrical Franchise in America and the 20th Century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics Editor’s Note to self – this chapter is currently being edited but only about 1/4 done as of Jan 11,2025 @ 4:19 pm       Chapter 4 […]

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