Historical Childbirth Politics 1820-1980

Joseph B. DeLee & Practice of Preventive Obstetrics by Judith Walzer Leavitt, PhD; AJPH 1998

by faithgibson August 19, 2015

Editor’s Note — needs editing! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1349440/pdf/amjph00249-0095.pdf Public Health – Then and Now AJPH October 1988, Vol. 78, No 10 page 1353 Joseph B. DeLee and the Practice of Preventive Obstetrics by Judith Walzer Leavitt, PhD Editorial Comments and Background: 1. Dr. Delee’s impact on childbirth practices in America — ultimately resulting in the complete obstetricalization of […]

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How Normal Childbirth Got Trapped on the Wrong Side of History ~ a manuscript

by faithgibson August 11, 2015

How Normal Childbirth Got Trapped on the Wrong Side of History: The perfect storm that turned healthy childbearing women into the patients of a surgical specialty, and normal childbirth into a surgical procedure ~ the last and most important UNTOLD story of the 20th Century Unpublished manuscript by faith gibson, LM, all rights reserved, 2005 […]

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The Brave New World of Evidence-based Maternity Care for the 21st Century ~ a manuscript

by faithgibson July 4, 2015

  The Brave New World of Evidence-based Maternity Care for the 21st Century ~ by faith gibson, LM 1997, updated 2002 & 2013 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 mis-numbered ~ no chap. 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11  

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Obstetricians promoting the “New Obstetrics” 1910 to 1923 ~ #4

by faithgibson February 23, 2015

Forth in a 5-part series Obstetricians promoting the “New Obstetrics” 1910 to 1923 ~ “If the profession would realize that parturition, viewed with modern eyes, is no longer a normal function, but that it has imposing pathologic dignity, the midwife would be impossible of mention.” [1915-C; DeLee, MD p.117] ~ “If obstetrics is ever to […]

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Medical Education and the Campaign to Abolish the Midwife ~ #3

by faithgibson February 21, 2015

Third in a 5-part series Medical Education and the Campaign to Abolish Midwifery Only by being familiar with obstetrical science and education in the US in the early 1900’s can one reasonably evaluate the obstetricians’ campaign to eliminate the midwife. Obstetrical education in the early 1900s in United States was not primarily based on clinical training […]

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