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In Britain, by the 1980s, society had come to accept that birth, the essential physiological event by which the human race has perpetuated itself, must now take place in a medical institution. The family home was the traditional birthing place right up to the start of the 20th century and for many years thereafter, yet by the early 1980s hardly 1% of British births took place there. For such a revolutionary concept to be accepted by a culture within such a short period of its history and with such unanimity must be a rare phenomenon. How did it come about?
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Tew, M. (1995). The revolution in maternity care: the diverse strands of a complicated tapestry. In: Safer Childbirth?. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2973-0_1
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