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Page 97
... childbirth . Unlike a midwife , a doctor was not about to sit around for hours , as one doctor put it , " watching a hole " ; if the labor was going too slow for his schedule he intervened with knife or forceps , often to the detriment ...
... childbirth . Unlike a midwife , a doctor was not about to sit around for hours , as one doctor put it , " watching a hole " ; if the labor was going too slow for his schedule he intervened with knife or forceps , often to the detriment ...
Page 113
... childbirth , in a crowded tenement room , was often a frantic ordeal . Emma Goldman , who was a trained midwife as well as an anarchist leader , described " the fierce , blind struggle of the women of the poor against frequent ...
... childbirth , in a crowded tenement room , was often a frantic ordeal . Emma Goldman , who was a trained midwife as well as an anarchist leader , described " the fierce , blind struggle of the women of the poor against frequent ...
Page 278
... childbirth , " hypnosis , or using childbirth as an " experience . " 20 In fact , the " socially aware , " assertive patient who was inter- ested in participating in her own childbirth experience was probably more infantile and neurotic ...
... childbirth , " hypnosis , or using childbirth as an " experience . " 20 In fact , the " socially aware , " assertive patient who was inter- ested in participating in her own childbirth experience was probably more infantile and neurotic ...
Contents
Two Witches Healers and Gentleman Doctors | 33 |
THREE Science and the Ascent of the Experts | 69 |
Mystique Medicine and the Big Money Exorcising | 93 |
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