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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Pt. I | Physicians and the Pain of Childbirth | |
| 1 | "The Head of Jove and the Body of Bacchus": James Young Simpson and the Beginning of Obstetric Anesthesia | 2 |
| 2 | "A Cup of Circe": The Opposition to Obstetric Anesthesia | 20 |
| 3 | "Bled, Leeched, Salivated": The Transformation of Medical Practice by Science | 38 |
| 4 | "The Queen in Her Confinement": John Snow's Approach to Anesthesia | 54 |
| 5 | "The Tender Organization of the Newborn": Balancing the Risks of Pain and Anesthesia | 70 |
| Pt. II | Women and the Pain of Childbirth | |
| 6 | "The Sin of Our First Parents": The Social Connotations of Pain | 90 |
| 7 | "This Blessed Chloroform": Pain as Biological and Anesthesia as Necessary | 108 |
| 8 | "There Ought to Be No Pain": The American Women's Campaign for Twilight Sleep | 130 |
| 9 | "Labor Is Pathogenic": The National Birthday Trust Fund Campaign in Great Britain | 152 |
| 10 | "As God Intended": Grantly Dick Read and the Natural Childbirth Movement | 172 |
| Pt. III | In the Delivery Room: Physicians and Women Together | |
| 11 | "Pain Makes Things Valuable": The Danger of Drugs and the Social Value of Pain | 198 |
| 12 | "The Greatest Misery of Sickness Is Solitude": Current Controversy | 220 |
| Notes | 235 | |
| Index | 279 |
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James Whitley
reviewed What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present on May 20, 2007
What a Blessing She Had Chloroform
Caton's recap of the major events in the recent history of childbirth pain management is more or less accurate. His interpretation, however, leaves quite a lot to be desired. His training is as an anesthesiologist, not a historian, and unfortunately his lack of training is fairly evident in the book. His analysis is a haphazard mix of historical facts, literary quotes, pop culture references and highly subjective interpretation thoroughly colored by his medical perspective and his presentist orientation. Worse, there's no unifying organizing principle to make sense of it all. His chapters on the early and the contemporary natural childbirth movements are the most egregious; he makes it very clear that he has no real understanding of the values, ideologies and perspectives that motivate natural childbirth advocates.
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