Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession

by Laura E. Ettinger

During the twentieth century modern births in America came to involve mostly male physicians, hospitals, technological interventions, and quick, routine procedures. In a unique and detailed historical study, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, Laura E. Ettinger fills a void with the first book-length documentation of the emergence of American nurse-midwifery. This occupation developed in the 1920s involving nurses who took...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251501
• ISBN13: 9780814251508
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"