Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920

by Charlotte Borst

Using the methodology of social science theory, Charlotte Borst examines the effect of gender, culture, and class on the transition to physician-attended childbirth in the late nineteenth century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674733479
• ISBN13: 9780674733473
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"