01876 a2200301 4500 1138868213 20250317100407.0 250312042014GB eng 9781138868212 Taylor & Francis GBP 55.99 BB 01 eng MBX thema NHD thema NHTB thema MBX bic HBJD bic HBTB bic HIS000000 bisac 362.1980233 bisac Hilary Marland Midwives, Society and Childbirth Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period 1 Oxford Routledge 20141202 292 p Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric science in particular from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession, while stressing the importance of regional influences and locality. Dr Anne Marie Rafferty, Philadelphia, Dr Hilary Marland, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Dr Irvine Louden, Oxfordshire, Joan Mottram, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medic Anne Marie Rafferty B01 1941 1941