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Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876

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Amalie M. Kass
2019
Published by: Northeastern University Press
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This first biography of the prominent obstetrician vividly depicts the life and career of a multi-faceted man and offers fresh perspectives on medicine, society, and women's reproductive lives in nineteenth-century America. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2002. With a new foreword by Scott Podolsky, M.D.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half Title

pp. i

Image

pp. ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

Dedication

pp. v-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Illustrations

pp. ix-x

Foreword to theHumanities Open Book Edition

pp. xi-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp. xv-xvii

Chronology

pp. xviii-xix

The Channing Family Tree

pp. xx-xxii

Half Title 1

pp. 1

Image 1

pp. 2

Prologue

pp. 3-4

Chapter 1. Youth

pp. 5-20

Chapter 2. Medical Studies

pp. 21-43

Chapter 3. Launching a Career, 1811-1822

pp. 44-68

Chapter 4. Obstetrical Practice

pp. 69-92

Chapter 5. The Hospitals

pp. 93-113

Chapter 6. The Education of Physicians

pp. 114-132

Chapter 7. The Middle Years, 1822-1840

pp. 133-155

Chapter 8. Puerperal Fever

pp. 156-167

Chapter 9. Obstetrical Anesthesia

pp. 168-186

Chapter 10. Social Reform

pp. 187-210

Chapter 11. “Action of a Man’s Whole Nature,” 1840-1854

pp. 211-233

Chapter 12. The Medical Profession at Mid-Century

pp. 234-255

Chapter 13. Retirement and Repose

pp. 256-277

Notes

pp. 278-364

Selected Bibliography

pp. 365-373

Walter Channing Bibliography

pp. 374-377

Index

pp. 378-387

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