MW4102 Professional Issues Seminar: Midwifery History, Politics and Activism
This course provides an overview of the history of childbirth, medicine and midwifery beginning with the indigenous clients and colonialists in North America, through the 19th and 20th centuries; then focusing on the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s that re-awakened the midwifery profession in North America; to the present political climate in which direct-entry midwifery is practiced in the U.S. and Canada.
Prerequisite
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