ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: System On A Chip, Medicalization, Caving
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Lecture 6- soc 244 - oct 11 2011. What birth has done for doctors (wertz, 1983 ) - before the bacteriological precautions- before those discoveries very little clinical medicine could be described as scientific. many people practiced and had minor surgeries in the barber shop. They were easily accessible and they were restricted drugs like they are today. They would be performed at home or they would go to the local barber surgeons. Birth was not fatal - some barber surgeons 0 would insert a type of lever against the babies impacted head to take out the baby out of the kennel - slide 3. First specialized chairs, clinical places were in the area in american medical schools. Women that gave birth in hospitals were unmarried or single women. This encouraged middle and upper class women and could afford the fees of a doctor and it became common for a doctor to help a women give birth at home.
