essay
Old World traits obliterated: immigrant midwives and the medicalization of childbirth
their languages, literature, and lives: proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 1987 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1990 • Pages: 215-230
By: Danzi, Angela D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides an overview of the role of the Italian midwife in southern Italy and in the United States. The article discusses the transition from midwife to doctor, from home birth to hospital birth, and proposes a model of stages that can be applied to future research (p. 216).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Comparative evidence
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Medical personnel
- Childbirth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Angela D. Danzi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-230)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90083301
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans