Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

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Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine This page intentionally left blank Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medien^ Amanda Carson Banks University Press of Mississippi Jackson http://www.upress.state.ms.us Copyright © 1999 by Amanda Carson Banks All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 4 3 2 1 00 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Banks, Amanda Carson, 1965— Birth chairs, midwives, and medicine / Amanda Carson Banks p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57806-171-7 (alk. paper). — ISBN 1-57806-172-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Childbirth—Social aspects—History. 2. Midwifery—History. 3. Birth customs—History. 4. Maternal health services—History. I. Title. RG652.B36 1999 618.2'009—-dc21 99-27105 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available F'or September 9, 1983 This page intentionally left blank If there be sermons in stones, there are surely volumes of romances in old furniture. And they are the best kind of romances, too, because they are all true and not the labored efforts of fictionaries, jaded with trying to find some new thing under the sun. We have but to open our eyes and unstop our ears to the language of furniture and a whole new world, richly filled with stirring memories, at once breaks upon us. D. E. Eberlein and Abbot McClure, The Practical Book of Period Furniture This page intentionally left blank ...