Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America

By Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029345103
• ISBN13: 9780029345108
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Free Pr
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.