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Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Janet Greenlees
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.
Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Janet Greenlees
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.
Psychiatry and Chinese History
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Howard Chiang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implica
Modern German Midwifery, 1885–1960
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Lynne Fallwell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a se
Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Anna Shepherd
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different i