Japanese American Midwives

Author : Susan L. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252092435

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Japanese American Midwives by Susan L. Smith Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, Japan's modernizing quest for empire transformed midwifery into a new woman's profession. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women. They actively participated in the creation of Japanese American community and culture as preservers of Japanese birthing customs and agents of cultural change. Japanese American Midwives reveals the dynamic relationship between this welfare state and the history of women and health. Susan L. Smith blends midwives' individual stories with astute analysis to demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's caregiving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics. By setting the history of Japanese American midwives in this larger context, Smith reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine.

Author : Mary Walker Standlee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Midwives
ISBN : 0804802211

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The Great Pulse by Mary Walker Standlee Pdf

Author : University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies
Publisher : Research Institute for Comparative Literature
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0921490097

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East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives by University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies Pdf

Author : Mary W. Standlee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Midwifery
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037046989

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The Great Pulse by Mary W. Standlee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015074929004

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Journal of Asian American Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ana Johns
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488035135

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The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns Pdf

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations. America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori’s journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption. In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.

Author : Maggie Evans,Beverley Marsh,Angela Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199584673

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Oxford Handbook of Midwifery by Maggie Evans,Beverley Marsh,Angela Walker Pdf

This unique and bestselling handbook provides midwives with everything they need for successful practice. It contains concise, practical and expert guidance on all aspects of the midwife's role, from pre-conceptual advice to the final post-natal examination of the mother and baby.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medicine
ISBN : NWU:35556038583290

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Bulletin of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Includes the Transactions of the 15th- annual meetings of the American Association of the History of Medicine, 1939-

Author : 日本助産師会
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4930935016

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A Statement by Midwives by 日本助産師会 Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : UCSC:32106020379795

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The Hawaiian Journal of History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781609805258

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Joyous Childbirth Changes the World by Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura Pdf

“No matter how science has progressed, childbirth, in essence, has remained unchanged from ancient times . . . [It] is the last natural process left to us,” writes internationally lauded obstetrician Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura. “The fact that it has remained unchanged means that there is truth in it.” The truth and power of birth is the subject of Dr. Yoshimura’s first book published in the United States. Yoshimura describes babies born so directly into the arms of their mothers that they do not cry, and women so transformed with pride and passion in their ability that they are joyous and forever changed. Instead of a medical emergency, Yoshimura describes birth as a transcendent and natural process that cannot be perfected, and that, when performed through the innate power of women, reveals what he calls a “mystic beauty.” Full of delightful stories of birthing women and peaceful smiling infants, and helpful tips from his childbirth preparation program, Joyous Childbirth Changes the World is a must-read for all expectant parents and those who care for them. Yoshimura’s clinic serves as a testament to the kind of compassionate birth culture that is possible if we prioritize the health and experience of women and babies.

Author : Cynthia Toman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858168

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An Officer and a Lady by Cynthia Toman Pdf

During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers' rank of the Canadian Armed Forces. They served in all three armed force branches and all the major theatres of war, yet nursing as a form of war work has long been under-explored. An Officer and a Lady fills that gap. Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as "officers and ladies."

Author : Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462989737

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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter Pdf

This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived in the region, we get a strikingly detailed picture of the dreadful experiences of wartime life in Japan. The interviewees are wide-ranging and include students, housewives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. And their collective stories range from early, spirited support for the war on to more reflective later views in the wake of the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids, and finally into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. Detailed archival materials buttress the personal accounts, and the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as felt in a single region of Japan.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307432964

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Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Praise for Paris 1919 “It’s easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph (London)

Author : Dr. Joyce E. Thompson, DrPH, RN, CNM, FAAN, FACNM,Helen Varney Burst, RN, CNM, MSN, DHL (Hon.), FACNM
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826125385

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A History of Midwifery in the United States by Dr. Joyce E. Thompson, DrPH, RN, CNM, FAAN, FACNM,Helen Varney Burst, RN, CNM, MSN, DHL (Hon.), FACNM Pdf

Written by two of the professionís most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth. The book spans the historical evolution of midwives as respected, autonomous health care workers and midwifery as a profession, and considers the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for this discipline as enduring motifs throughout the text. It surveys the roots of midwifery, the beginnings of professional practice, the founding of educational institutions and professional organizations, and entry pathways into the profession. Woven throughout the text are such themes as the close link between midwives and the communities in which they live, their view of pregnancy and birth as normal life events, their efforts to promote health and prevent illness, and their dedication to being with women wherever they may be and in whatever health condition and circumstances they may be in. The text examines the threats to midwifery past and present, such as the increasing medicalization of childbearing care, midwiferyís lack of a common identity based on education and practice standards, the mix of legal recognition, and reimbursement issues for midwifery practice. Illustrations and historical photos depict the many facets of midwifery, and engaging stories provide cultural and spiritual content. This is a ìmust-haveî for all midwives, historians, professional and educational institutions, and all those who share a passion for the history of midwifery and women. Key Features: Encompasses the most authoritative and comprehensive information available about the history of midwifery in the United States Considers the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for midwifery Illustrated with historical photos and drawings Includes engaging stories filled with cultural and spiritual content, introductory quotes to each chapter, and plentiful chapter notes Written by two preeminent leaders in the field of midwifery