HD FS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Tooth Development, Muscle Tone, Feta
24 Jan 2017
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1840"s women who were pregnant were weak and fragile. 1890"s americans were concerned about an explosive birth rate among immigrants and thought painful labors were discouraging middle class women from having children. Drugs like ether and chloroform were thought to increase the likelihood of birth among middle class white people. 1910"s women given drugs like morphine and scopolamine to induce. Women wanted this drug because they thought that is how labor should be and what it should feel like. Delirium was often a side effect, and as a result women were strapped to their beds using resistants during labor. Many of these treatments made labor and birth more controllable for physicians but not for moms. Research shows that analgesia that mom received actually ended up harming baby. 1960-1970"s: women began protesting the dehumanizing aspects of the medical fields approach to birth. This change was likely caused by the feminist movement of the time.
