Maternity Nurses Oral History Project, 1986

Summary Information

Title: Maternity Nurses Oral History Project
Inclusive Dates: 1986

Call Number: Mss 783; Tape 1146A

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) and 24 tape recordings

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Tape-recorded interviews conducted by Sara Monkres with nineteen nurses caring for women during birth, focussing on the conflicts arising between the expectations and expressed needs of birthing women, and hospital policy and physicians' orders. Topics included are changing medications used in labor, the professional relationships between doctors and nurses, changes in the involvement of the father, and disagreements between mothers and doctors about the way childbirth was handled. Also in the collection are resumes and transcripts for most of the interviews.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00783
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