Sage-femme, gardienne de l'eutocie ? PDF Download

Author: Catherine Thomas
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ISBN: 9782749273440
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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À l'heure où les sages-femmes se déclarent en grève pour faire entendre leurs revendications, ce livre apporte un éclairage anthropologique et historique sur la formation et l'évolution de leur métier et permet de mieux comprendre les conditions actuelles de la naissance en France. Les sages-femmes sont formées pour être des spécialistes de l'accouchement eutocique, soit sans complication obstétricale. Le fait que 80 % des femmes en France ont un accouchement dirigé médicalement a généré de nombreuses mutations dans leur métier. Retracer l'évolution de la formation et de la pratique des sages-femmes permet d'observer les conséquences de la technicisation de l'accouchement. Ainsi, les sages-femmes ont adapté leurs savoirs : en fonction de leur statut (hospitalier ou libéral), mais aussi de la protocolisation de leur exercice basé sur une conception de plus en plus normalisée du risque obstétrical. Aujourd'hui, devant les effets de cette standardisation de la prise en charge de la parturition, elles sont nombreuses à revendiquer un accompagnement global des futures mères. Préface Introduction 1. Évolution de la?formation des?sages-femmes et des conditions d'accouchement 2. Accompagner l'accouchement?: pourquoi?? comment?? 3. Accouchement, autonomie et gestion du risque 4. L'accompagnement global de?la?maternité, un combat Conclusion. L'offre de soins périnatale, quelschoix pour demain?? Postface Bibliographie.

Author: Catherine Thomas
Publisher: Eres
ISBN: 2749273455
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 340

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Les sages-femmes sont formées pour être spécialistes de l’accouchement eutocique, soit sans complication obstétricale. Or le fait que 80% des femmes en France ont un accouchement médicalement dirigé a généré de nombreuses mutations dans leur métier. Elles ont dû adapter leurs savoirs en fonction, d’une part, de leur statut (hospitalier ou libéral), d’autre part, de la protocolisation de leur exercice basé sur une conception normalisée du risque obstétrical. Devant les effets de cette standardisation, elles sont nombreuses à revendiquer de meilleures conditions de travail et d'accouchement pour les futures mères. De leur côté, les femmes dénoncent les violences gynécologiques et obstétricales, demandent une humanisation et une diversification de l’offre de soin par la création notamment de maisons de naissance. Pourquoi ces attentes ne sont-elles pas entendues à leur juste valeur ? Catherine Thomas apporte un éclairage anthropologique et historique sur l’évolution du métier de sage-femme pour mieux comprendre les conditions actuelles de la naissance. L’engagement et le savoir-faire de celles qui tentent de préserver leur identité professionnelle de « gardienne de l’eutocie », à qui cet ouvrage donne la parole, sont essentiels à la formation des nouvelles générations de sages-femmes.

Author: Hilary Marland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134818122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The Art of Midwifery is an excellent resource for students of women's history, social history and medical history.

Author: Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190264136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century. Judith Walzer Leavitt's classic study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. Leavitt narrates the shifting power of childbearing women and their physicians, as well as changes in infant and maternal mortality. She also discusses how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new preface that reviews the burgeoning writing on the history of childbirth since its publication.

Author: Wendy Mitchinson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802084712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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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.

Author: Hilary Marland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134785992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, medical and midwifery historians, sociologists, and those with experience in delivering childbirth services. Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science in general and obstetric science in particular from the late nineteenth century. The contributors challenge the traditional bleak picture of midwives' decline in the face of institutional obstetrics, medical technology, and the growing power of the medical profession, while stressing the importance of regional influences and locality. Dr Anne Marie Rafferty, Philadelphia, Dr Hilary Marland, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Dr Irvine Louden, Oxfordshire, Joan Mottram, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medic

Author: Eva Abraham-Van der Mark
Publisher: Het Spinhuis
ISBN: 9789055890606
Category : Childbirth at home
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"In most of the industrialized Western world, the birth process has been almost completely removed from the domain of the woman and the family into the realm of technocratic specialists. To imagine that there exists an industrialized country, the Netherlands, with all the resources of modern medicine, of pharmacology and surgery, where women and care providers actively espouse a noninterventionist stance in childbirth, has always been one of the great puzzles, paradoxes, and revelations in our field. This book traces this most anomalous phenomenon."--Back cover.

Author: Deborah Kuhn McGregor
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813525723
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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In this social history of the development of modern gynecology in the mid-19th century, McGregor (history, women's studies, U. of Illinois-Springfield) reflects the attitudes and practices of the day through the controversial career of J. Marion Sims, the father of gynecology. Includes illustrations of early medical practitioners and establishments (in particular, New York's Woman's Hospital). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Lianne McTavish
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351952390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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Throughout the early modern period in France, surgeon men-midwives were predominantly associated with sexual impropriety and physical danger; yet over time they managed to change their image, and by the eighteenth century were summoned to attend even the uncomplicated deliveries of wealthy, urban clients. In this study, Lianne McTavish explores how surgeons strove to transform the perception of their midwifery practices, claiming to be experts who embodied obstetrical authority instead of intruders in a traditionally feminine domain. McTavish argues that early modern French obstetrical treatises were sites of display participating in both the production and contestation of authoritative knowledge of childbirth. Though primarily written by surgeon men-midwives, the texts were also produced by female midwives and male physicians. McTavish's careful examination of these and other sources reveals representations of male and female midwives as unstable and divergent, undermining characterizations of the practice of childbirth in early modern Europe as a gender war which men ultimately won. She discovers that male practitioners did not always disdain maternal values. In fact, the men regularly identified themselves with qualities traditionally respected in female midwives, including a bodily experience of childbirth. Her findings suggest that men's entry into the lying-in chamber was a complex negotiation involving their adaptation to the demands of women. One of the great strengths of this study is its investigation of the visual culture of childbirth. McTavish emphasizes how authority in the birthing room was made visible to others in facial expressions, gestures, and bodily display. For the first time here, the vivid images in the treatises are analysed, including author portraits and engravings of unborn figures. McTavish reveals how these images contributed to arguments about obstetrical authority instead of merely illustrating the written content of the books. At the same time, her arguments move far beyond the lying-in chamber, shedding light on the exchange of visual information in early modern France, a period when identity was largely determined by the precarious act of putting oneself on display.

Author: Catharina Geertruida Schrader
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062036202
Category : Midwives
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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A very short book, "Mother and Child were Saved" features a translation of the memoirs that Frisian midwife, Catharina Schrader had written in the late 17th and the early 18th centuries. These were extracted from her notes that documented almost 3000 deliveries over the course of Schrader's career as a midwife. The memoir, exhibited around 100 of the most complicated that Schrader had helped with. These included both mother and child who had died, some where only the child died, some where one of a set of multiples lived, some where both lived happily. Though the essays and the introduction focus on the medical aspects of Schrader's career. The social aspect as a female midwife in a period of medicalized transition cannot be overlooked. One can see the burgeoning reticence emanate even from Schrader herself towards midwives who were incompetent and merely "tortured" their patients. However, this Memoir is integral for any study of midwifery in Europe during the early modern period. While the introductory essays could have been expanded to consider the social consequences of gender and midwifery, the fact that the Memoirs have been translated from their mix of three languages (Dutch, German and Frisian) into one ubiquitous language: English, gives the modern historian greater access to a primary source that details the travails and tribulations that women faced during this period that did not have the same kind of prenatal care that women see today. Ultimately, women faced with every birth, the possibility that they could die, and this memoir shows that there was a marked response to do anything they could to prevent that on the part of midwives and other obstetrical practitioners during this period. Regardless with the lack of exploration into the issues surrounding gender or the views of conception or any other number of paths that the essayists at the beginning could have explored, this work should be read by any historian that is considering gender in the early modern period.