What a blessing she had chloroform : the medical and social response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the present

What a blessing she had chloroform : the medical and social response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the present / Donald Caton.

Author/creator	Caton, Donald, 1937-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.
Description	xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject(s)	Anesthesia in obstetrics--History. Pain--Prevention --History. Anesthesia, Obstetrical--history. Labor, Obstetric. Pain--prevention & control.

Contents	pt. I. Physicians and the pain of childbirth -- Ch. 1. James Young Simpson and the beginning of obstetric anesthesia -- Ch. 2. The opposition to obstetric anesthesia -- Ch. 3. The transformation of medical practice by science -- Ch. 4. John Snow's approach to anesthesia -- Ch. 5. Balancing the risks of pain and anesthesia -- pt. II. Women and the pain of childbirth -- Ch. 6. The social connotations of pain -- Ch. 7. Pain as biological and anesthesia as necessary -- Ch. 8. The American women's campaign for twilight sleep -- Ch. 9. The national birthday trust fund campaign in Great Britain -- Ch. 10. Grantly Dick Read and the natural childbirth movement -- pt. III. In the delivery room: physicians and women together -- Ch. 11. The danger of drugs and the social value of pain -- Ch. 12. Current controversy.
Local note	Little-323760--3051310383790
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-277) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN	98036869
ISBN	0300075979 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780300075977 (alk. paper)