Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Introduction Western Maternity and Medicine: An Introduction, Linda Bryder, Janet Greenlees; Chapter 1 Safely Delivered? Insights into Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Maternity Care from Coronial Investigations into Maternal Deaths, Madonna Grehan; Chapter 2 Pregnancy, Pathology and Public Morals: Making Antenatal Care in Edinburgh Around 1900, Salim Al-Gailani; Chapter 3 ‘The Peculiar and Complex Female Problem’: The Church of Scotland and Health Care for Unwed Mothers, 1900–1948, Janet Greenlees; Chapter 4 Taking ‘Advantage of the Facilities and Comforts … Offered’: Women’s Choice of Hospital Delivery in Interwar Edinburgh, Alison Nuttall; Chapter 5 ‘What Women Want’: Childbirth Services and Women’s Activism in New Zealand, 1900–1960, Linda Bryder; Chapter 6 ’Twixt God and Geography: The Development of Maternity Services in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Lindsey Earner-Byrne; Chapter 7 Test Tubes and Turpitude: Medical Responses to the Infertile Patient in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland, Gayle Davis; Chapter 8 Women’s Experiences of the Maternity Services in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, c. 1970–1990, Angela Davis; Chapter 9 From Muller to Johnson Controls: Mothers and Workplace Health in the us, from Protective Labour Legislation to Fetal Protection Policies, Allison L. Hepler;

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.