ABSTRACT

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.

chapter |12 pages

Western Maternity and Medicine: An Introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

Safely Delivered? Insights into Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Maternity Care from Coronial Investigations into Maternal Deaths

chapter 2|16 pages

Pregnancy, Pathology and Public Morals: Making Antenatal Care in Edinburgh Around 1900

Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Western Maternity and Medicine: An Introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

Safely Delivered? Insights into Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Maternity Care from Coronial Investigations into Maternal Deaths

chapter 2|16 pages

Pregnancy, Pathology and Public Morals: Making Antenatal Care in Edinburgh Around 1900

chapter 3|17 pages

‘The Peculiar and Complex Female Problem': The Church of Scotland and Health Care for Unwed Mothers, 1900–1948

chapter 4|16 pages

Taking ‘Advantage of the Facilities and Comforts … Offered': Women’s Choice of Hospital Delivery in Interwar Edinburgh

chapter 5|17 pages

‘What Women Want': Childbirth Services and Women’s Activism in New Zealand, 1900–1960

chapter 6|14 pages

'Twixt God and Geography: The Development of Maternity Services in Twentieth-Century Ireland

chapter 7|15 pages

Test Tubes and Turpitude: Medical Responses to the Infertile Patient in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland

chapter 8|18 pages

Women's Experiences of the Maternity Services in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, c. 1970–1990

chapter 9|16 pages

From Muller to Johnson Controls: Mothers and Workplace Health in the us, from Protective Labour Legislation to Fetal Protection Policies