Hi Nicole,
( And I have seen the others.)
Yes, Ann Oakley- The captured womb, is good. She also wrote the first chapter
in Effectiveness in antenatal care ( Enkin/ Chalmers) on its history. However
this is all about how antenatal care started in England/ the USA. I believe
in the Uk in Eidnburgh with the first hospital doing this for poorer women
and then women from the upper class started to go for this kind of care,
which goes together with the medicalisation of childbirth.
Mind, that in the different countries, there were different ways of how it
started. So you have to find out how it started in your country and how it
really was affected by the development in the UK/ USA. Heringa wrote a doctoral
thesis about the Netherlands, which makes clear how it developed there and
this was also influenced by French things.
In the German speaking countries it developed out of social and preventive
medicine and the fact that the medics during the 2nd world war discussed
how they could increase their work ( congress papers document this). In Switzerland
nobody knows ( still), but it is there. Possibly influenced by the Germans.
An interesting fact was for instance that " women" and "charity" played a
big role in the UK, and women's rights and movements demanded it. In the
Germanspeaking countries, it was started through "social and preventive medicine",
which was more connected to the work that nuns did. In these countries the
form of "charity" that women do in the UK hardly exist.
If you want to I might send you my some parts of my chapters for my thesis,
which include this. You have to wait till I get home though ( next week),
as I am in Glasgow for my study at this moment.
Best wishes,
Ans
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>Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 07:54:04 +1000
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>Subject: reference re origins of antenatal care
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>Hi all,
>Does anyone have some good references about the origins of antenatal care,
>in particular, what its aims were and what brought it about?
>Thank you,
>Nicole Carver,
>Bendigo,
>Australia.
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