What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present

by Catón and Donald Caton

Book Overview

This book describes in fascinating detail the history of the use of anesthesia in childbirth and in so doing offers a unique perspective on the interaction between medical science and social values. Dr. Donald Caton traces the responses of physicians and their patients to the pain of childbirth from the popularization of anesthesia to the natural childbirth movement and beyond. He finds that physicians discovered what could be done to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300075979
• ISBN13: 9780300075977
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"