HSS 2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Intersectionality, British Literature, Hierarchical Database Model
24 Feb 2017
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Hss2121 homework -- week of february 27, 2017 (class 1) Beginning of century -- high maternal mortality in childbirth. Managing childbirth mortality > concern with pain relief in childbirth > well being of fetus and newborn. Medical advances allowed mortality rates from childbirth to decrease after the 1930s -- i. e. blood transfusion, safer anesthetic and antibiotic. Heavy sedation and general anesthesia (safe in the hospital) Still births and infant morbidity slowly declined after the mid 1900s -- mother nutrition and standard of living, neonativity. 99% of births in can today are in the hospital. Hospitals may have restrictions regarding when it is appropriate for fathers or grandparents to participate. Midwifery legal in manitoba and bc and pending in saskatchewan; fully funded in. A midwife at every confinement : midwifery and medicalized. Canadian bulletin of medical history (2014): 139-159. http://www. cbmh. ca/index. php/cbmh/article/view/1645/1637. Beginning of 20th c -- british midwives had honorable role in hc team, ontario tried to push midwives out of hc.
