Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...halting replies did not disconcert her. She jotted down each one with meticulous care. When it was all over (it had taken 30 minutes), she made a few more notes at the bottom of her clipboard. Telephone? "No." Union member? "No." "Man." "White." She thanked the peddler and moved on to the park adjoining Central Public Library in dirty, downtown Los Angeles...
When the Maternity Center Association was founded 30 years ago, it had one aim: lowering the U.S. maternal death rate. M.C.A. urged editors of general magazines to drop their priggish taboos against discussing the problems of pregnancy; it advised women to get medical care early in pregnancy-and hospitals to give...
M.C.A. representatives traveled all over the U.S. preaching pre-natal care, and founded institutes in which 25,000 nurses learned better techniques of caring for women in childbirth; in 1932 a school was established for training nurse-midwives to replace ignorant midwives. The association is proud of the part it played in lowering the maternal death rate from 9.2 per 1,000 in 1918 to 3.7 (including diseases of pregnancy...
...trained nurse in 1919 and became its general director in 1923, announced a new goal. The association would now like to see the principles of psychosomatic medicine applied to childbirth. Said Miss Corbin, a vigorous, greying 53: "The emergency death-preventing job which has been done in maternity care has exacted a price in emotional coinage and human dignity. When the obstetric care of the mother was moved from the home to the hospital to save life, childbearing was transported from the natural, intimate .human atmosphere of the family to the atmosphere of sickness, abnormality and death which permeate hospital...
...Childbirth must be made safer at home through more nurse-midwives who can work with doctors and recognize quickly any sign of abnormality that requires an expert obstetrician. Hospitals must be redesigned to remove "the redolence of pathology" found in present maternity wards; doctors must be trained to care for the emotional well-being of mothers, babies-and fathers...