Pushing in silence : modernizing Puerto Rico and the medicalization of childbirth /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Córdova, Isabel M. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Childbirth > Puerto Rico > History. Obstetrics > Social aspects > Puerto Rico > History. Parturition Obstetrics > history Puerto Rico Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Stage one : midwife-assisted homebirths, 1948/1953
Stage two : transitioning toward hospital births, 1954/1958
Stage three : physician-assisted hospital births, 1959/1965
Stage four : medicalized births, 1966/1979
Stage five : a technocratic, litigation-based model of birth and novoparteras, 1980/2000
Conclusion and epilogue.