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Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care
\"This is the first ethnography of American midwives and their clients and advocates. The culmination of more than a decade of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research, this project specifically interrogates the potential and pitfalls of legal and political campaigns for reproductive autonomy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A history of midwifery in the United States
Written by two of the professionís most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth.
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Japanese American Midwives
In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for empire. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women. They actively participated in the creation of Japanese American community and culture as preservers of Japanese birthing customs and agents of cultural change._x000B_ The history of Japanese American midwifery reveals the dynamic relationship between this welfare state and the history of women and health. Midwives' individual stories, coupled with Susan L. Smith's astute analysis, demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics. By setting the history of Japanese American midwives in this larger context, Smith reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine._x000B_
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How to be a nurse or midwife leader
How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an indispensable guide for all nurses and midwives who wish to develop and improve their practice as leaders. Written in collaboration with the NHS Leadership Academy, this practical book draws on the real experience of over 10,000 nurses and midwives to bring leadership dilemmas to life in specific situations.
Key learning features include:
* How to develop your self-awareness
* How to develop your personal impact and presence
* How to survive and thrive
* How to get your message across
* How to get the best out of others
* How to work with and lead other professionals and patients
* How to have courageous conversations
* How to balance conflicting demands and needs
Containing exercises and reflective questions to help apply theory to leadership practice, How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an ideal companion for all nurses and midwives, whether you are newly qualified, or stepping into a team leader role.
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African American midwifery in the South : dialogues of birth, race, and memory
Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators, beginning at the turn of the century, mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them.
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\Something Wasn't Clean\
Set in rural Georgia, the 1953 health film All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story was a government-sponsored project intended as a training tool for midwives. The film was unique to feature a black midwife and a live birth at a time when southern health officials blamed midwives for the region's infant mortality rates. Produced by the young filmmaker George Stoney, All My Babies was praised for its educational value and, as this article demonstrates, was a popular feature in postwar medical education. Yet as it drew acclaim, the film also sparked debates within and beyond medical settings concerning its portrayal of midwifery, birth, and health care for African Americans. In tracing the controversies over the film's messages and representations, this article argues that All My Babies exemplified the power and limits of health films to address the complexities of race and health during an era of Jim Crow segregation.
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African-American Midwifery, a History and a Lament
The medicalization of fertility and infertility, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, childbirth, and postpartum care has not always worked in the interests of women. It has had particularly devastating effects on African-American women. Their fertility has been managed for hundreds of years, first as slaves forced to have children for owners, then as objects to be experimented on without anesthetics, and finally as mothers sterilized without their consent. The relatively high rates of infant and maternal mortality, along with limited access to safe and high-quality reproductive services, are continuing signs of such devastation. This article discusses the history and consequences of the medicalization of pregnancy, contraception, and abortion in America. Attention is drawn to the ways in which the profession of medicine took control away from midwives, the traditional birth attendants and pregnancy caregivers, and the particular consequences for African-American women. Ultimately, we posit that greater access to midwifery care could lower infant and maternal mortality rates and improve reproductive services. The reintroduction of spirituality through midwifery would also restore the important role of \"wise women\" in supporting women, babies, and communities.
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Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.
First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.
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Regulating Birth: Locating Power at the Intersection of Private and Public in Oregon History
Historicizing birth — working to understand how and why the practices and
experiences of childbirth have developed and changed and how efforts to
“regulate birth” have shaped both its practice and experience
— allows us to chart shifting dominant values as well as the impacts of
those changes. Social anxieties about citizenship, family, and life itself
often underlay birthing regulations. From the impact of federal Indian policies
on Native communities, to the role of labor unions in advocating for access to
birth control, to the unfolding history of genetic testing and its influence on
birth choices, to the history of midwifery and home birth, the regulation of
birth both reflects and shapes community assumptions regarding inclusion and
exclusion. The articles in this special issue present a compelling case for
focusing historical attention on childbirth. As historians of women and gender
have long argued, centering historical inquiry on experiences previously
dismissed as merely “women's issues” can both deepen our
historical knowledge and challenge traditional narratives.
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Minimal Intervention — Nurse-Midwives in the United States
I first observed childbirth in 1973 during a rotation at the Boston Lying-In Hospital, where I witnessed many women in labor screaming in a scopolamine stupor. What I remember most vividly were not the physicians and nurses, competent though they may have been, but the British-trained nurse-midwives who practiced as labor nurses. Their competence, confidence, and compassion had a calming effect on everyone in the room (including this terrified student-nurse). The experience was so gripping, in fact, that I left the hallowed halls of New England Deaconess Hospital for the hollows of Kentucky to enter the Frontier Nursing Service School . . .
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