January 2025

Chapter 3: 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 3131 Jan 2025 Chapter three:  draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th Century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!) The Obstetrical Franchise Crosses the Pond – Having a Baby in the New World When Europeans migrated to the New World during […]

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Chapter 2 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 3933 as of Jan 17-2025 Chapter Two ~ Birth Dangers in a Pre-scientific World   However, not all problems associated with childbirth can be prevented by patience or correct positioning. In a pre-scientific, pre-technological world, the normal support of midwives was often not enough if the childbearing woman suffered from a serious disease, […]

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

by faithgibson January 1, 2025

Complied by Faith Gibson, LM, 2007 word count 5575 ~ 01-25-2025 Historical & Contemporary Background on the 20th-century practice of  “obstetrics” for healthy women, the profession of midwifery and its relationship with organized medicine The unfortunate truth about America is that we have the highest maternal mortality rate  (MMR) of any wealthy industrialized country in […]

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