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Childbirth
This guide is meant to be general a starting point to locating
books on the history of childbirth in North America during the 19th
century, primarily within the University of Chicago Library.
Keywords & subject headings to try in the Library
Catalog & online databases
- 19th (nineteenth) century
- history of medicine, medicine --history
- Obstetrics & Gynecology, Obstetricians, Obstetric Midwife,
midwifery; midwives
- Childbirth; Pregnancy, Delivery, Labor, Labor (Obstetrics),
Maternal health services
Selected books at the Library:
- Caton, Donald. What a blessing she had chloroform : the medical
and social response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the
present / Donald Caton. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999.
Harper Library RG732 .C28 1999
- MURPHY-LAWLESS, JO. Reading birth and death : a history of
obstetric thinking. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998.
Crerar Stacks RG652 .M87 1998
- Philip K. Wilson . Childbirth : changing ideas and practices in
Britain and America 1600 to the present. New York : Garland Pub.,
1996. Regenstein Stacks RG518.U5C47 1996
- Borst, Charlotte G. Catching babies : the professionalization
of childbirth, 1870-1920. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
Press, 1995. Crerar Stacks RG652.B650 1995
- O'Dowd, Michael J.The history of obstetrics and gynaecology.
New York : Parthenon Pub. Group, c1994. Crerar Stacks
RG51.O360 1994
- Women and children first ; international maternal and infant
welfare, 1870-1945 / edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, and
Hilary Marland. New York : Routledge, 1992. Series: Wellcome
Institute series in the history of medicine 4. Crerar
Stacks RG940.W660 1992
- Speert, Harold, 1915- Obstetric & gynecologic milestones
illustrated. New York : Parthenon Pub. Group, c1996. Crerar Stacks
RG51 .S683 1996 Crerar Stacks RG51 .S683 1996
- Childbirth : changing ideas and practices in Britain and
America 1600 to the present. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Regenstein Stacks RG518.U5 C47 1996
- Delivering motherhood : maternal ideologies and practices in
the 19th and 20th centuries. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
Regenstein Stacks HQ759.D430 1990
- Moscucci, Ornella. The science of woman : gynaecology and
gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge, England ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Crerar Stacks RG67.G7M670
1990
- Donegan, Jane B. "Hydropathic highway to health" : women and
water-cure in antebellum America. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
Press, c1986. Crerar Stacks RM811.D740 1986
- Judith Walzer Leavitt. Brought to bed : childbearing in
America, 1750 to 1950 / New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
Harper Library RG518.U5L40 1986
- Donegan, Jane B. Women & men midwives : medicine, morality,
and misogyny in early America. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,
1978. Crerar Stacks RG518.U5D660
- Wertz, Richard W. Lying-in : a history of childbirth in
America. New York : Free Press, c1977. Regenstein Stacks
RG518.U5W470
- Williams, J. Whitridge (John Whitridge). A sketch of the
history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860.
Crerar Stacks RG516.W7
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