Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period / edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The social evolution of preindustrial American cities, 1700-1820 / Gary B. Nash -- Strumpets and misogynists : brothel "riots" an the transformation of prostitution in Antebellum New York City / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The enemy within : some effects of foreign immigrants on Antebellum Southern cities / Randall M. Miller -- The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan -- The centrality of the horse in the nineteenth-century American city / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr -- Underworlds and underdogs : big Tim Sullivan and metropolitan politics in New York, 1889-1913 / Daniel Czitrom -- The "poor man's friend" : saloonkeepers, workers, and the code of reciprocity in U.S. barrooms, 1870-1920 / Madelon Powers -- Leisure and labor / Kathy Peiss -- Chicago's 1919 race riot : ethnicity, class, and urban violence / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Music and mass culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles / George J. Saanchez -- The new deal in Dallas / Roger Biles -- Harold and Dutch : a comparative look at the first Black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Blacks and hispanics in multicultural America : a Miami case study / Raymond A. Mohl -- Bold new city or built-up 'burb? Redefining contemporary suburbia / William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock -- New perspectives on American urban history / Raymond A. Mohl.

Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in 20th century.

English.

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