The Rise and Fall of National Women's Hospital: A History

by Linda Bryder

In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Women's Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in 20th-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in, artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1869408098
• ISBN13: 9781869408091
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"