{"product_id":"deliver-me-from-pain-jacqueline-h-wolf-9781421405728","title":"Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In \u003ci\u003eDeliver Me from Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it historically posed serious risk to mothers and newborns, paradoxically came to assuage women's anxiety about birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter begins with the story of a birth, dramatically illustrating the unique practices of the era being examined. \u003ci\u003eDeliver Me from Pain\u003c\/i\u003e covers the development and use of anesthesia from ether and chloroform in the mid-nineteenth century; to amnesiacs, barbiturates, narcotics, opioids, tranquilizers, saddle blocks, spinals, and gas during the mid-twentieth century; to epidural anesthesia today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabor pain is not merely a physiological response, but a phenomenon that mothers and physicians perceive through a historical, social, and cultural lens. Wolf examines these influences and argues that medical and lay views of labor pain and the concomitant acceptance of obstetric anesthesia have had a ripple effect, creating the conditions for acceptance of other, often unnecessary, and sometimes risky obstetric treatments: forceps, the chemical induction and augmentation of labor, episiotomy, electronic fetal monitoring, and Cesarean section.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs American women make decisions about anesthesia today, \u003ci\u003eDeliver Me from Pain\u003c\/i\u003e offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline H. Wolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421405725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421405728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Jacqueline H. Wolf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43934795858175,"sku":"9781421405728","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5762cf95-8cd1-48e7-89fe-53794f78fd60.jpg?v=1681416097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deliver-me-from-pain-jacqueline-h-wolf-9781421405728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}