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draft ~ WuOBs_Topic 2 ~ Overview ~ The disturbing story of obstetrics in America from 1910 to 1980

by faithgibson May 20, 2023

WuOBs_by-Topic#2 ~ Overview The disturbing story of obstetrics in America from 1910 to 1980 Page #10 in 41 p. file Overview ~ American obstetrics purposefully turned healthy women into the patients of a surgical specialty and normal childbirth into a surgical procedure. The consequence was the most profound change in childbirth practices in the history […]

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Work-N-Progress: A Better Form of Social Activism ~ Six Degrees of Separation

by faithgibson May 19, 2023

Work-N-Progress: A Better Form of Social Activism ~ Six Degrees of Separation Originally post on JUNE 24, 2016 Extraordinary Street Art ~ graffiti on public retaining wall incorporated into this compelling pair of eyes, with the foliage on the top of the wall framing her face with what looks like green hair. Editor’s Contemporary Note […]

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The Gender Gap Writ Large for Childbearing Women & their Midwives ~ draft chapter from (unpublished) “Disturbing Story of Obstetrics in America 1910 to 1980”

by faithgibson May 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorry for such large type, my WORDPRESS theme went crazy and I haven’t figured out how to fix it yet!  faith ^O^ Ch ? The Gender Gap Writ Large for Childbearing Women & their Midwives ~ “Disturbing Story of Obstetrics in America 1910 to 1980” by FAITHGIBSON on MAY 3, 2023  [EDIT] Unassigned Chapter from the […]

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Ch 5: The Disturbing story of obstetrics in America from 1910 to 1980

by faithgibson April 25, 2023

  A Visionary and Renaissance Man and who dreamed really big!?? Dr. Williams’ solution to this classic economic dilemma — not enough paying customers to support the business model for a first-class hospital, and not enough first-class general hospitals to serve the American population — was to devise rather complicated plan with many different moving […]

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Ch 4: The distrubing Story of obstetrica in America ~ 1910 to 1930

by faithgibson April 25, 2023

  Ch 4 ~ Two problems, one solution, a big win for society at the expense of healthy childbearing women From Dr. JWW’s perspective, as former chief of obstetrics and Dean of a famous American medical school, the biggest and difficult problem was the desperate lack of “general” hospitals able to provide  “comprehensive” services  in […]

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