Obstetrics Consultations and Midwifery Liability
Challenges in Nurse-Midwifery, Anti-midwifery sentiments turn of 20th century, Maternal deaths at hands of new male obstetricians, Continued campaigns against midwifery, Return of midwifery in hospital 1960's, Friction between CNMs nurses and women OBGYN, Intracollegial disdain increases medical mistakes, CNM/CM psychological abuse Martha Merrill-Hall Challenges in Nurse-Midwifery, Anti-midwifery sentiments turn of 20th century, Maternal deaths at hands of new male obstetricians, Continued campaigns against midwifery, Return of midwifery in hospital 1960's, Friction between CNMs nurses and women OBGYN, Intracollegial disdain increases medical mistakes, CNM/CM psychological abuse Martha Merrill-Hall

Obstetrics Consultations and Midwifery Liability

Campaigns against midwifery, starting at the beginning of the 19th century, set the table for strained relationships between physicians and midwives, persisting to the present time. Anti-midwifery sentiments, enhanced by the attitudes of J. Whitridge Williams (1912) and Joseph Bolivar DeLee (1915)*, ushered in an age of obstetrics and scientific medicine which were considered the only modern and realistic choice for safe and healthy childbirth in America.

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