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| List of Figures | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Artifacts and the Cultural Construction of Birth | ||
| Stones and Stools: An Early History of Birth Chairs and the Practice of Delivery | 1 | |
| Curse or Cure? The Rise of Professional Medicine, the Redefinition of Birth, and the Move from Chair to Bed for Delivery | 33 | |
| Contest and Compromise: The Debate over the Philosophy of Birth, the Return of the Birth Chair, and the Struggle for Ownership | 79 | |
| Belief, Artifacts, and the Cultural Construction of Medicine | 119 | |
| App | Museums and Archives with Birth Chairs in Their Collections | 125 |
| Bibliography | 127 | |
| Index | 149 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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John Filice
reviewed Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine on October 29, 2015
Birth Chairs
"No event, especially one as overlaid with cultural significance and popular wisdom as birth, can be technologically alone, devoid of symbolic and cultural significance." xvi
How we give birth and how we support the laboring mother has a vast ripple effect. Birth is a natural physiological event. It must be treated with the sacredness it requires. Birth is similar to the pinecone: an ordinary and everyday miracle that has the potential to grow into a large pine tree.
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