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- Title: Heroes Or Villains? Midwives, Nurses, And Maternity Care in Mid-Nineteenth Century Australia (Report)
- Author : Traffic (Parkville)
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 369 KB
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RECEIVED AND REVISIONIST ACCOUNTS: A CONTEST It is fair to say that commonly held accounts of nineteenth-century Australian maternity care history have condemned the role of female midwives in the care of women while lauding the nursing profession as having transformed that arena. As the story goes, the discipline and education of the trained nurse elevated midwifery from old women's work into a special branch of modern nursing practice, under the steerage of the profession of nursing. (1) In keeping with their truimphal style, received accounts tend to apply a broad brush to decry any form of care attendance that might have existed in the colonies prior to the much celebrated introduction of the Nightingale scheme. Thus, nineteenth-century midwives have been portrayed as ignorant and incompetent, and the absorption of midwifery into the profession of nursing positioned as necessary for the protection of women and babies.