‘The Husband, For Whom She Endures All This’: Dutch Men in Childbirth, 1900–1940
Summary I argue that in the early twentieth-century Netherlands, fathers regularly attended the birth of their children, and that this attendance was generally accepted or even encouraged by doctors. My findings contrast with existing historiography on the Anglo-Saxon countries, where, at the time, fathers were usually not present at births. I explain this difference between the Netherlands and the Anglo-Saxon countries through the ideal of the harmonious family that permeated Dutch society at the time. I show how birth was seen as a family event, in which the father should be emotionally invo... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Social History of Medicine ; ISSN 0951-631X 1477-4666 |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Schlagwörter: | History / Medicine (miscellaneous) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27057341 |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad088 |