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What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present 1st edition
Donald Caton
What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present 1st edition
Donald Caton
A history of the use of anaesthesia in childbirth and the interaction between medical science and social values. It discusses how 19th-century physicians began to think like scientists and how people came to reject the belief that pain was inevitable.
288 pages, 8 b-w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 1, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780300075977 |
Publishers | Yale University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 223 × 148 × 26 mm · 494 g |
Language | English |
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