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draft ~ Topic-6_p14-&-15_The gender gap writ large

by faithgibson February 7, 2023

Copied to fg.org as draft May 2023 Topic-6_p14-&-15_The gender gap writ large Unfortunately, this part of the story begins with the male of the species assuming that men naturally do everything better than members of the female gender. For obstetricians in leadership roles in the early 20th century, the specific gender-related target was midwives.  What […]

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draft ~ TOPIC-5_p-14_Early 1900s ~ peeling the onion, one layer at a time . . .

by faithgibson February 6, 2023

TOPIC-5_p-14_Early 1900s ~ peeling the onion, one layer at a time . . . How the routine use of obstetrical interventions in the births of middle- and upper-class women in the early 1900s radical changed and redefined obstetrically-managed childbirth for the rest of the 20th and continues to dominate obstetrical practices in the 21st century […]

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draft ~ Topic 4 – The Big Reveal – motives hidden beneath claims OB interventions make childbirth safer healthy women

by faithgibson February 5, 2023

TOPIC-4_Page 13_The Big Reveal ~ Motives hidden beneath claims that more obstetrical interventions make childbirth safer for healthy childbearing women This bring us back to the question I first started asking when I saw the drastic contrast between the non-interventive practices associated with childbirth of black mothers on 1 South, compared to “business as usual” […]

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draft ~ Topic 3 – Ch 1 motives behind 1910 decision by to define normal childbirth in healthy upper-class (white) women as pathological & far-reaching consequences

by faithgibson February 4, 2023

Coped to fg.org as draft TOPIC-3 pages 12 &13 Chapter 1. The motives behind the obstetrical profession’s 1910 decision to define normal childbirth in healthy upper-class (white) women to be inherently pathological and its far-reaching consequences When I was first introduced to the highly obstetricalized childbirth practice of American obstetrics in the 1960s, the unquestioned […]

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draft ~ Topic 1 – The History of Obstetrics in America and why these historic facts still matter in 2023

by faithgibson February 3, 2023

Background Reading ~ Part 1 The History of Obstetrics in America and why these historic facts still matter in 2022 The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned normal childbirth upside down in the healthy population (75%) of woman, which paved the way for the NEJM paper 74 years later, claiming that […]

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