Historical Childbirth Politics 1820-1980

XXX Links to all chapters of “Twilight Sleep: A Simple Account of New Discoveries in Painless Childbirth” Dr. JWHenry Williams

by faithgibson September 8, 2013

    Hooded & straight-jacketed labor patient medicated with Twilight Sleep drug scopolamine   Written at the request of & in collaboration with Dr. J Whitridge Williams, gynecological surgeon & Chief of Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins, by science writer, Dr Henry Smith Williams, MD Published ~ 1914 Chap 1 ~ Twilight Sleep: A Simple Account of New Discoveries […]

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Book review of “The Cry and the Covenant” 
by 
Morton Thompson


by faithgibson August 9, 2013

Reposted from http://www.doyletics.com/arj/tcatcrvw.htm Published by Garden City Books/NY in 1949 Book Review by Bobby Matherne ©2010 *** This is a book that begged for a re-reading. I first read it almost twenty years ago while taking a course in Dr. Andrew Galambos’ Volitional Science from Evan Soulé — it was part of the reading library […]

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Medicine: Childbirth: Nature v. Drugs Monday, May 25, 1936

by faithgibson May 2, 2013

This is a reprint of a newspaper article reporting on the annual AMA Convention held in Kansas City in the spring of 1936 and originally published in Times Magazine on May 25. One of the most talked about events at the Convention was provided by Dr. DeLee. According to the Times article: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756116-1,00.html “His use […]

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Great paper on the evolution of childbirth practices in US ~ Home to Hospital: 1927-1940

by faithgibson April 4, 2013

Miami University ~ Farmer School of Business Department of Economics: Working Paper From Home to Hospital: The Evolution of Childbirth in the United States, 1927-1940  Melissa A. Thomasson Miami University Jaret Treber Kenyon College November, 2006 Abstract: This paper examines the shift in childbirth from home to hospital that occurred in the United States in […]

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Historical Context for Contemporary Obstetrical Policies – a work-n-progress

by faithgibson January 8, 2013

Part 1 ~:~ The most profound change in childbirth practices in the history of the human species The Invention of the American Way of Birth: How healthy childbearing women became the patients of a surgical speciality and normal childbirth was turned into a surgical procedures ‘performed’ by medical doctors under general anesthesia  Most people assume […]

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