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This book describes in fascinating detail the history of the use of anesthesia in childbirth and in so doing offers a unique perspective on the interaction between medical science and social values. Dr. Donald Caton traces the responses of physicians and their patients to the pain of childbirth from the popularization of anesthesia to the natural childbirth movement and beyond. He finds that physicians discovered what could be done to manage pain, and patients decided what would be done.

subjects: Anesthesia in obstetrics,  Pain,  Prevention,  History,  Medicine,  Labor (Obstetrics),  Anesthesia,  Anesthesia, history,  New York Times reviewed,  Obstetrical Anesthesia,  Prevention & control,  MEDICAL,  Nursing,  Anesthesiology,  Geboorte,  Anesthesie,  Obstetric Labor,  Social Values,  Sensation,  Pregnancy,  Neurologic Manifestations,  Signs and Symptoms,  Social Psychology,  Signs and Symptoms Pathological Conditions,  Nervous System Diseases,  Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms,  Nervous System Physiological Phenomena,  Reproduction,  Anesthesia and Analgesia,  Psychophysiology,  Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Analytical,  Disease,  Reproductive Physiological Phenomena,  Psychological Phenomena and Processes,  Psychiatry and Psychology,  Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena,  Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena,  Phenomena and Processes,  Gynecology & Obstetrics,  Health & Biological Sciences,  Labor