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
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
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 noteLittle-323760--3051310383790
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-277) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 98036869
ISBN0300075979 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780300075977 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks RG732 .C28 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus Books - Stacks WO 211.1 C366W 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold