Word: childbirth
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...makeshift ward that was part of his house or clinic. Indeed, the Japanese do not complain a great deal about medical care in general. They rarely challenge the authority of their physicians by asking for a second opinion or questioning a diagnosis. Says Louise Shimizu, an American who teaches childbirth preparation classes in Tokyo: "It is always a struggle to get information. You cannot build up good relations with doctors...
From this foundation, the novel moves to examine more fully the entire realm of female experience, from marriage to childbirth and death, from contentment to rage and guilt. The struggles, however, are not those of the girls, but of their grandmother. The girls reveal her hardships, from poverty and disastrous marriage to the sudden wealth which allowed her to buy the farm. Lil Krauss's five daughters, May, Elinor, Libby, Grace and Rachel, also come alive through the narrators; the startling distinctions amongst them, the subtle tensions, and their relationships with their husbands are brought to light under the granddaughters...
...couple, who have been married 21 years and have five children (two by Ruckelshaus' first wife, who died during childbirth), are an even-tempered and devoted pair. Bill likes to tease his wife about being the "radical" in the family, but they seem generally unconcerned at the awkwardness of Jill's publicly criticizing her husband's boss. "I've said before, if it ever came to a choice between my job and my wife," Ruckelshaus says, "I'd choose my wife." Adds Jill: "We're not a fairy-tale couple. And there...
...Home illuminates the deadening burden that male supremacy imposed during the 19th century. Throughout Historian Harvey Green's lively text, advertisements, advice columns, how-to manuals and diaries kept by women of the period attest to an oppressed existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless pit." His foresight is an astonishment; Green's hindsight is an education...
...reputation thus buoyed, she moved into more lucrative civil trial work, initially with Philip Corboy, Chicago's famed personal injury litigator. For two malpractice suits brought by parents of infants blinded after childbirth, she criss-crossed the country, taking out-of-court testimony from 26 doctors, and helped to secure a million-dollar settlement in one of the cases...