HSS 2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter Midterm 2 : Dionne Quintuplets, Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Willem Dafoe

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2121
• Professor: Louise Edmonds

Document Summary

A midwife at every confinement: midwifery and medicalized childbirth in ontario and britain, Instead of allowing skilled midwives to work in ontario, physicians and the. Ontario liberal government of arthur sturgis hardy opted to promote physician- atte(cid:374)ded (cid:271)i(cid:396)th as the o(cid:374)l(cid:455) safe, s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272), a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:863) optio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ta(cid:374)t mothers. Home births, including midwife-assisted births, actually predominated in ontario until the late 1930s, but by 1950 less than 10% of births took place in the home. 20th century implementation of the national health services act (1948) fundamentally changed healthcare and birthing practices. The active role of midwives in the advancement of maternal health and safety shows the professional influence of midwifery in europe. British history of childbirth: the majority of physicians in england supported programmes to train and certify midwives and believed that trained midwives were perfectly capable of working independently at normal births. Raising the dionne quintuplets: lessons for modern mothers.