{"product_id":"brought-to-bed-judith-walzer-leavitt-9780195056907","title":"Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750 to 1950","description":"Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, \u003cem\u003eBrought to Bed\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present.\u003cbr\u003e Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth places because they believed the increased medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable. Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did not immediately decline. She concludes that birthing women held considerable power in determining labor and delivery events as long as childbirth remained in the home. The move to the hospital in the twentieth century gave the medical profession the upper hand. Leavitt also discusses recent events in American obstetrics that illustrate how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Walzer Leavitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195056906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195056907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.56w x 0.73d","brand":"Judith Walzer Leavitt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054639149311,"sku":"9780195056907","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3a4271a-df31-49de-834b-7716a0180189.jpg?v=1685031121","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brought-to-bed-judith-walzer-leavitt-9780195056907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}