Birth Pangs: A Social History of Obstetric Anesthesia

产品说明： 这部美国产科麻醉的社会史有四个目标：1。阐明妇女对分娩疼痛的看法如何随着时间的推移而变化。2.探讨医生如何获得他们的意见，出生和这些看法如何塑造产科实践，特别是产科麻醉的管理。3.研究历史、社会和文化力量如何影响医疗决策并塑造标准医疗实践。4.解释有争议的医疗程序，如在分娩过程中使用吸入麻醉，如何被接受为标准和有益的做法。 这本书将探讨两种不同的，往往是对立的，知识的形式产科医生的医疗知识的出生和妇女的预期和经验的生产和影响，他们的互动。作为一名社会历史学家，P.I.将把医生和妇女对分娩疼痛的不断变化的看法，以及妇女对产科麻醉的愿望和医生的批准，发展和使用的变化放在历史，社会和文化背景下。 本书的数据将从母亲和医生的口述历史访谈以及无数的档案和出版物来源中挑选出来，包括妇女的信件和日记;医生的个人文件;医生和妇女的自传和回忆录;各种出生改革组织的文件;妇产医院记录;医生的产科日志;在医院候诊室记录的父亲的沉思;杂志、报纸和医学期刊上的文章;流行的医疗建议手册;和产科文本。

DESCRIPTION: This social history of obstetric anesthesia in the United States has four objectives: 1. To shed light on how women's perceptions of labor pain change over time. 2. To explore how physicians acquire their views of birth and how those perceptions shape obstetric practice, particularly the administration of obstetric anesthesia. 3. To examine how historical, social, and cultural forces affect medical decision-making and shape standard medical practice. 4. To explain how controversial medical procedures, like the use of inhalation anesthesia during birth, come to be accepted as standard and beneficial practice. This book will examine two different, often oppositional, forms of knowledge-obstetricians' medical knowledge of birth and women's anticipation and experience of birth-and the effects of their interaction. As a social historian, the P.I. will put physicians' and women's changing perceptions of labor pain and the changes in women's desire for and physicians' approval, development, and use of obstetric anesthesia in historical, social, and cultural context. Data for this book will be culled from oral history interviews with mothers and physicians as well as myriad archival and published sources including women's letters and diaries; physicians' personal papers; physicians' and women's autobiographies and memoirs; the papers of assorted birth reform organizations; maternity hospital records; physicians' obstetric logs; the musings of fathers recorded in hospital waiting rooms; articles in magazines, newspapers, and medical journals; popular medical advice manuals; and obstetrics texts.