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I feel like the shift from midwives and a communal birth to a more private birth with a physician is another way of showing the shift to a more personalized and independent lifestyle. I also think that this was another area that men had to be superior over women even though the midwife had been the norm for ages. I do think that these physicians were obviously beneficial to the world of medicine and to saving women and childrens' lives. It is just unfortunate that the women who had been helping other women give birth since, well, pretty much the beginning of time had to take a back seat to men and science. But really, what else is new? - Kari | I feel like the shift from midwives and a communal birth to a more private birth with a physician is another way of showing the shift to a more personalized and independent lifestyle. I also think that this was another area that men had to be superior over women even though the midwife had been the norm for ages. I do think that these physicians were obviously beneficial to the world of medicine and to saving women and childrens' lives. It is just unfortunate that the women who had been helping other women give birth since, well, pretty much the beginning of time had to take a back seat to men and science. But really, what else is new? - Kari | ||
| − | I cannot help but think of Mintz and Kellogg’s jab at modern American families with their desire to be isolated from the society at large when thinking of the changes in childbirth as presented by Scholten. We witness a gradual, but significant change for women and men as obstetrics was a field opened to trained, male physicians instead of the role of a midwife and other females. We see a shift from communal to more individual as fewer women were needed for medical advice or general support of birthing women. It is interesting to note that women tended to disappear when a physician arrived and that physicians were grateful since women tended to talk too much, gossip, and be overall very distracting. We see birth as a more private matter confined to a quiet, dimly lit room with very few visitors or female company. One can already notice a shift from communal to individual that Kellogg and Mintz like to frequently point out as a plague of the modern family just simply examining the change in child birthing practices. – Mary Beth | + | I cannot help but think of Mintz and Kellogg’s jab at modern American families with their desire to be isolated from the society at large when thinking of the changes in childbirth as presented by Scholten. We witness a gradual, but significant change for women and men as obstetrics was a field opened to trained, male physicians instead of the role of a midwife and other females. We see a shift from communal to more individual as fewer women were needed for medical advice or general support of birthing women. It is interesting to note that women tended to disappear when a physician arrived and that physicians were grateful since women tended to talk too much, gossip, and be overall very distracting. We see birth as a more private matter confined to a quiet, dimly lit room with very few visitors or female company. One can already notice a shift from communal to individual that Kellogg and Mintz like to frequently point out as a plague of the modern family just simply examining the change in child birthing practices. – Mary Beth |
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| + | In response to Andrew's comment on the possibility of combining the valuable and diverse traits of both Midwives and male practitioners, I would say that although females were certainly deprived of emotional support during childbirth when men became dominant in the field, this period most likely proved crucial towards the development of an appreciation for a multiplicity of skills provided by both sexes. The advancement of knowledge on childbirth seemed to have benefited from witnessing the limitations of resorting to solely medical expertise to guide the process or strictly empathetic skills (and the commonality of experience) offered by midwives. Consequently, I would argue that the expanded recognition of the necessity of skills offered by both men and women resulted from this tenuous, revolutionary period. -Augusta C. | ||
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