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Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank

Author
Epstein, Randi Hutter.
Title
Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank / Randi Hutter Epstein.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.
Description
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302).
Contents
  • Eve's doing : birth from antiquity through the Middle Ages
  • Men with tools : forceps use from 1600s to 1800s
  • Slave women's contribution to gynecology
  • Dying to give birth : maternal mortality into the twentieth century
  • Leaving home : New York's lying-in and the growth of maternity wards
  • Birth is but a sleep and forgetting
  • What was she thinking? : Freud meets fertility
  • It's only natural
  • Toxic advice and a deadly drug : DES
  • From kitchen-table surgery to the art of the C-section
  • Freebirthers
  • Womb with a view
  • Sperm shopping
  • The big chill
Kinsey subjects
Childbirth. Obstetrics and gynecology.
ISBN
9780393064582 0393064581

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
X10944676
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute