Description. This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the ’s. Widely praised when it was first published in , the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. History of Childbirth in America Nancy Schrom Dye Despite the centrality of pregnancy and birth in women's lives, historians have only recently turned their attention to the changing customs and Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz, Lying-In (New York: Free Press, ). “This superb book is both an impeccably documented recitation of the chronological history of medical intervention in American childbirth and a sociological analysis of the various meanings given to childbirth by individuals, interested groups, and American society as a whole.”―Barbara Howe, American Journal of Sociology Richard W. Wertz, a builder in Westport, Massachusetts, is formerly /5().
in birth up until about but does not mention caudal or epidural anesthesia; Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz, Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America (New York: The Free Press, ); Notes click on note number to return to text. Richard W. and Dorothy C. Wertz, Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America (New York: The Free Press, ). Carolyn Sargent and John Marcucci, "Khmer Prenatal Health Practices and the American Clinical Experience," in Childbirth in America: Anthropological Perspectives, Karen L. Michaelson, ed. (South Hadley, MA: Bergin Garvey Publishers, Inc. bltadwin.ru: Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America () by Wertz, Richard W.; Wertz, Dorothy C. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America. This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the ’s. Lying-in: a history of childbirth in America a history of childbirth in America by Wertz, Richard W. Publication date Wertz, Dorothy C., joint author. “This superb book is both an impeccably documented recitation of the chronological history of medical intervention in American childbirth and a sociological analysis of the various meanings given to childbirth by individuals, interested groups, and American society as a whole.”—Barbara Howe, American Journal of Sociology Richard W. Wertz, a builder in Westport, Massachusetts, is formerly an associate professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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