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
Try using some of the following keywords and subject headings in Lens or a database.
- 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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