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Excerpt #2 of the 1914 book: Draft: Twilight Sleep ~ A Simple Account of New Discoveries in Painless Childbirth and influence of Dr. J. W. Williams’ definition of childbirth as a pathological process

by faithgibson August 3, 2023

I’m devoting August 2023 to posting and organizing the mass of material I have on the life and influence of Dr. J. Whitridge Williams on obstetrics in America and his (unfortunately) successful efforts to officially define obstetrics as a surgical specialty, childbearing women was “surgical patients” and childbirth as a surgical procedure “performed” by the […]

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Excerpt #1 of the 1914 book: Twilight Sleep ~ Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth and Dr. J. Whitridge Williams’ influence that defined childbirth as a pathological process .

by faithgibson August 1, 2023

I am devoting August 2023 to posting and organizing the mass of material i have on the life and influence of Dr. J. Whitridge Williams. My goal is to collate the material into a single volume.  So if it seems redundant, you are right. But these various version were written at different times and represent […]

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Can a lack of love be deadly?

by faithgibson June 15, 2023

  Can a lack of love be deadly? originally publication ~ May 19, 2016 Beth Daley I taught myself about orphanages 12 years ago, not actually because of my work as a human biologist but because of my daughter. She was born in 2004 and her first 14 months of life were spent in an orphanage […]

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The Start of Life: a History of Obstetrics ~ by UK Professor of Obstetrics

by faithgibson June 15, 2023

The start of life: a history of obstetrics by Professor J Drife, UK ~ 2023 Correspondence to:
 Professor J Drife, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Level D, Clarendon Wing, Belmont Grove, Leeds LS2 9NS, UK;
 j.o.drife@leeds.ac.uk Abstract Obstetric intervention originally consisted of extraction of the baby, usually by the breech, to save the mother’s life in […]

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Babies & small children in Rumanian orphanages ~ The lasting impact of neglect

by faithgibson June 14, 2023

Mothering really matters; without it, nearly 100% of infants die before their first birthday. This is the ethical reason for not forcing women to have babies when they are physically, economically or psychologically unable to meet the baby’s physiological & emotional needs. This is one of the reasons that adolescent girls and women need access […]

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