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A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth : Key Themes in Maternity Care

Any book written says as much about the author as it does about its subject, and this volume is a prime example. I came to the topic both as an historian and a midwife, in that order. In the early 1990s I took a degree in history, focusing on the social and economic history of early twentieth-century Britain, followed by a master’s degree in English Local History and a dissertation that focused on the decline of Stourbridge Fair in Cambridge, originally one of the largest trading fairs in the country. However, my research world, together with my life, was turned upside down by my experience of the pregnancy and birth of my first child in 1992. Casting around for a PhD topic, I was drawn to the exploration of a profession and an experience that had never crossed my radar before, and I settled down to investigate the history of maternity care and midwifery in Sheffield between 1879 and 1939. During this time I had two further children of my own; the second born during the height of excite-ment around Changing Childbirth, and the third a planned home birth for which I had to argue (only with the doctors; the midwife was hugely supportive). My research was always an intersection between the personal and the intellectual; I remember sitting in the secretary’s office at the Jessop Hospital in Sheffield trying to concentrate on nineteenth-century annual reports of the hospital and being distracted by my own baby kicking inside me. I obtained my PhD in the same year that my third child was born, and despite moving into history teaching at the University of Sheffield, found myself increasingly drawn to midwifery. Two things finally pushed me; not getting a Wellcome grant for which I had applied, and the midwife who had delivered my daughter saying to me, in relation to midwifery, ‘If you don’t try you’ll never know.’ So I tried, and spent three years training as a midwife, and a further four practising clinically, first in Sheffield and then in Nottingham. My ‘day job’ now is as a Lecturer in Midwifery, educating further generations of aspiring midwives and supporting them through academic and pastoral crises and being hugely proud of them in their successes. My research love has, however, remained history and in particular the history of maternity, and it is to this that I have returned whenever I have time.

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USA : Routledge.,
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201 Halaman
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Indonesia
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ISBN13: 978-0-203-12422-2
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First published 2012
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  • A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth
    Any book written says as much about the author as it does about its subject, and this volume is a prime example. I came to the topic both as an historian and a midwife, in that order. In the early 1990s I took a degree in history, focusing on the social and economic history of early twentieth-century Britain, followed by a master’s degree in English Local History and a dissertation that focused on the decline of Stourbridge Fair in Cambridge, originally one of the largest trading fairs in the country. However, my research world, together with my life, was turned upside down by my experience of the pregnancy and birth of my first child in 1992. Casting around for a PhD topic, I was drawn to the exploration of a profession and an experience that had never crossed my radar before, and I settled down to investigate the history of maternity care and midwifery in Sheffield between 1879 and 1939. During this time I had two further children of my own; the second born during the height of excite-ment around Changing Childbirth, and the third a planned home birth for which I had to argue (only with the doctors; the midwife was hugely supportive). My research was always an intersection between the personal and the intellectual; I remember sitting in the secretary’s office at the Jessop Hospital in Sheffield trying to concentrate on nineteenth-century annual reports of the hospital and being distracted by my own baby kicking inside me. I obtained my PhD in the same year that my third child was born, and despite moving into history teaching at the University of Sheffield, found myself increasingly drawn to midwifery. Two things finally pushed me; not getting a Wellcome grant for which I had applied, and the midwife who had delivered my daughter saying to me, in relation to midwifery, ‘If you don’t try you’ll never know.’ So I tried, and spent three years training as a midwife, and a further four practising clinically, first in Sheffield and then in Nottingham. My ‘day job’ now is as a Lecturer in Midwifery, educating further generations of aspiring midwives and supporting them through academic and pastoral crises and being hugely proud of them in their successes. My research love has, however, remained history and in particular the history of maternity, and it is to this that I have returned whenever I have time.
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