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Author Wolf, Jacqueline H

Title Deliver me from pain : anesthesia and birth in America / Jacqueline H. Wolf
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents "Terrible torture" or "the nicest sensation I've ever had"? : conflicting perceptions of labor in U.S. history -- Ether and chloroform : the question of necessity, 1840s through 1890s -- Twilight sleep : the question of professional respect, 1890s through 1930s -- Developing the obstetric anesthesia arsenal : the question of safety, 1900 through 1960s -- Giving birth to the baby boomers : the question of convenience, 1940s through 1960s -- Natural childbirth and birth reform : the question of authority, 1950s through 1980s -- Epidural anesthesia and cesarean section : the question of choice, 1970s to the present
Summary "In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it posed serious risk to mothers and newborns, paradoxically came to assuage women's anxiety about birth." "Each chapter begins with the story of a birth, dramatically illustrating the unique practices of the era being examined. Deliver Me from Pain covers the development and use of anesthesia from ether and chloroform in the mid-nineteenth century; to amnesiacs, barbiturates, narcotics, opioids, tranquilizers, saddle blocks, spinals, and gas during the mid-twentieth century; to epidural anesthesia today." "As women make decisions about anesthesia today, 'Deliver Me from Pain offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis "Multi-User"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-265) and index
Notes English
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Subject Natural childbirth -- United States -- History
Childbirth -- United States -- History
Anesthesia in obstetrics -- United States -- History
Labor Pain -- psychology
Labor Pain -- history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Anesthesia, Obstetrical -- history
Socioeconomic Factors
Delivery, Obstetric -- history
Delivery, Obstetric -- psychology
Delivery, Obstetric -- history -- United States
Delivery, Obstetric -- psychology -- United States
Anesthesia, Obstetrical -- history -- United States
History, 19th Century -- United States
History, 20th Century -- United States
Labor Pain -- history -- United States
Labor Pain -- psychology -- United States
Socioeconomic Factors -- United States
Anesthesia in obstetrics
Childbirth
Natural childbirth
Anästhesie
Geburtsschmerz
Einstellung
Geburtshilfe
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008021274
ISBN 9781421403236
1421403234