From Home to Hospital

Jewish and Italian American Women and Childbirth, 1920-1940

Angela D. Danzi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

1997
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-0911-1 (ISBN)

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Employing seventy-eight in-depth interviews with Italian and Jewish American women, this study presents the subjective voices of women caught up in an important social change: the pre-1940 transformation of childbirth. Italian women were more varied in their choices—some were more likely to prefer home birth with a midwife, while others used a hospital clinic or private physician. A significant number moved from home to hospital over their birth careers, while nearly all Jewish women selected physician-assisted hospital birth. These differences are explained by looking at the structure and context of women's family and friendship networks and their personal links to varying childbirth caretakers.

Angela D. Danzi is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the State University of New York, Farmingdale.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.1998
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
ISBN-10	0-7618-0911-2 / 0761809112
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-0911-1 / 9780761809111
Zustand	Neuware