Dysfunctionalrelationsdoctors

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.