Deliver me from pain : anesthesia and birth in America /
"In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it posed serious risk to mothers and newborns, paradoxically came to assuage women's anxiety about birth." "Each chapter begins with the story of a birth, dramatically illust...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- "Terrible torture" or "the nicest sensation I've ever had"? : conflicting perceptions of labor in U.S. history
- Ether and chloroform : the question of necessity, 1840s through 1890s
- Twilight sleep : the question of professional respect, 1890s through 1930s
- Developing the obstetric anesthesia arsenal : the question of safety, 1900 through 1960s
- Giving birth to the baby boomers : the question of convenience, 1940s through 1960s
- Natural childbirth and birth reform : the question of authority, 1950s through 1980s
- Epidural anesthesia and cesarean section : the question of choice, 1970s to the present.
