Lamaze : an international history / Paula A. Michaels.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, [2014]

xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.

Note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Medicalized Childbirth and Natural Childbirth -- 3. The Soviet Method, 1936-51 -- 4. "Science Knows No Borders": Psychoprophylaxis in France, 1951-56 -- 5. "Passionate Controversies": Conflict and Change in Psychoprophylaxis across Europe in the 1950s -- 6. Lamaze Goes Global, 1957-67 -- 7. American Gains and Global Decline, 1968-80 -- 8. Epilogue: Revolution or Cooptation?