Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950

Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950
Author: Wendy Mitchinson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802084712

A fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century from the initial diagnosis of pregnancy, though childbirth - who was present, and where it took place - to the definition of what constituted a normal birth.