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The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital : a history / Linda Bryder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: x, 323 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869408091
Other title:
  • National Women's Hosiptal
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.11099336 23
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Childbirth services in New Zealand, 1900-1939 -- 2. National Women's Hospital and the Post graduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology -- 3. A tripod: patient care, research and teaching, the 1950s to 1963 -- 4. A woman's world: mothers, nurses and midwives at National Women's, the 1950s to 1963 -- 5. From premature nursery to paediatric department 1950s to 1963 -- 6. A bright new age: advances in reproductive medicine, 1964-1980s -- 7. The new patient and perinatal medicine -- 8. Contraception, sterilisation and abortion. -- 9. Obstetrics and the winds of change, 1964-1980s -- 10. Feminists, midwives and National Women's Hospital -- 11. A Hospital in trouble, 1990-2004 -- Conclusion.
Summary: "In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the rise and fall of National Women's over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups and patients to show how together their dialogue shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in twentieth-century New Zealand"--Publisher information.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 362.11099336 BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A528849B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 362.11099336 BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A558065B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 362.11099336 BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A558069B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Childbirth services in New Zealand, 1900-1939 -- 2. National Women's Hospital and the Post graduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology -- 3. A tripod: patient care, research and teaching, the 1950s to 1963 -- 4. A woman's world: mothers, nurses and midwives at National Women's, the 1950s to 1963 -- 5. From premature nursery to paediatric department 1950s to 1963 -- 6. A bright new age: advances in reproductive medicine, 1964-1980s -- 7. The new patient and perinatal medicine -- 8. Contraception, sterilisation and abortion. -- 9. Obstetrics and the winds of change, 1964-1980s -- 10. Feminists, midwives and National Women's Hospital -- 11. A Hospital in trouble, 1990-2004 -- Conclusion.

"In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the rise and fall of National Women's over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups and patients to show how together their dialogue shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in twentieth-century New Zealand"--Publisher information.

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