Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

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There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

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A fascinating study of how birthing methods have evolved and how key practices have returned.

Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife [2 volumes]

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From the stone age to the cyber age, women and men have experienced the world differently. Out of a cosmos of goddesses and she-devils, earth mothers and madonn

Dynamic Positions in Birth

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Most women give birth in hospitals, institutions modelled around the needs of the people who work there. The delivery room is designed around the obstetric bed

Ways of Knowing about Birth

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There is no other living scholar with Davis-Floyd’s solid roots, activism, and scholarly achievements on the combined subjects of childbirth, midwifery, obste