A History of the Lamaze Method in the USSR, France and the US, 1930-80

分娩准备现在是一个普遍的现象，在世界上许多地方，包括美国，和名称“拉梅兹”实际上是同义词，这一仪式的通道途中父母。尽管所有美国父母都参加分娩准备课程，但尚未对这种做法的起源和演变进行研究。本书以冷战为背景，讲述了在美国作为拉梅兹方法流行的心理预防的跨国故事。该研究重建了从苏联到法国，然后到美国的分娩准备方法的传输，这本书旨在帮助提高对当代产科实践的认识和意向性，特别是关于疼痛管理的选择，通过检查拉梅兹方法的历史起源和发展。这种叙述将使产科专业人员和准专业人员对分娩和疼痛之间的联系有不同的看法，通过刺激对主导假设的反思和提出替代观点，可能重塑日常实践中的病人-护理人员关系。 本书探讨了这些不同的政治、经济和文化背景如何不仅塑造了该方法的实践，而且塑造了倡导者和批评者赋予其的社会意义。医学社会史的方法，对来自俄罗斯联邦、乌克兰、法国、英国和美国的广泛出版和档案来源产生了影响，揭示了转变，社会建构的产科疼痛、分娩、母性和公民责任的概念。这项研究通过对医疗实践和冷战政治的交叉点进行雄心勃勃的跨国分析，开辟了新的学术领域。

Childbirth preparation is now a universal phenomenon throughout much of the world, including the United States, and the name "Lamaze" is practically synonymous with this rite-of-passage en route to parenthood. Despite the fact that all American parents attend childbirth preparation classes, no study of this practice's origins and evolution has been undertaken. This book situates the transnational story of psychoprophylaxis, popularized in the United States as the Lamaze Method, against the backdrop of the Cold War. The study reconstructs the transmission of this method of childbirth preparation from the Soviet Union, to France, and then to the U.S. This book aims to help bring greater awareness and intentionality to contemporary obstetric practices, particularly with respect to pain management choices, through an examination of the historical origins and development of the Lamaze method. This narrative will expose obstetric professionals and paraprofessionals to different perspectives on the link between childbirth and pain, potentially reshaping the patient-caregiver relationship in everyday practice by stimulating reflection on reigning assumptions and suggesting alternative views. This book inquires into how these divergent political, economic, and cultural contexts shaped not only the method's practice, but the social meaning that both advocates and detractors ascribed to it. The methods of the social history of medicine, brought to bear on a wide array of published and archival sources from the Russian Federation, Ukraine, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, shed light on shifting, socially-constructed notions of obstetric pain, childbirth, motherhood, and civic duty. This study breaks new scholarly ground through its ambitious transnational analysis of the intersection of medical practice and Cold War politics.