Background
Wertz, Dorothy Corbett was born on May 18, 1937 in Buffalo. Daughter of William Joseph and Helen (Leggett) Corbett.
( This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial ...)
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the 1980’s. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. In a new chapter and epilogue, Richard and Dorothy Wertz discuss the recent focus on delivering perfect babies, with its emphasis on technology, prenatal testing, and Caesarean sections. They argue that there are many viable alternatives―including out-of-hospital births―in the search for the best birthing system. Review of the first edition: “Highly readable, extensively documented, and well illustrated…A welcome addition to American social history and women’s studies. It can also be read with profit by health planners, hospital administrators, ‘consumers’ of health care, and all those who are concerned with improving the circumstances associated with childbirth.”―Claire Elizabeth Fox, bulletin of the History of Medicine “A fascinating, brilliantly documented history not merely of childbirth, but of men’s attitudes towards women, the effect of a burgeoning medical profession on our very conception of maternity and motherhood, and the influence of religion on medical technology and science.”―Thomas J. Cottle, Boston Globe “This superb book…is both an impeccably documented recitation of the chronological history of medical intervention in American childbirth and a sociological analysis of the various meanings given to childbirth by individuals, interested groups, and American society as a whole.”―Barbara Howe, American Journal of Sociology Richard W. Wertz, a builder in Westport, Massachusetts, is formerly an associate professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dorothy C. Wertz, is a research professor at the School of Public Health, Boston University
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Wertz, Dorothy Corbett was born on May 18, 1937 in Buffalo. Daughter of William Joseph and Helen (Leggett) Corbett.
AB, Radcliffe College, 1958; postgraduate, London School Economics, London, 1959; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966.
Instructor Bryn Mawr College, 1963-1965. Assistant professor Boston College, 1966-1968, Bridgewater (Massachusetts) State College, 1969-1971. Instructor Lowell (Massachusetts) Technological Institute, 1971-1972.
Assistant professor University Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1972-1973. Associate professor University New Haven, 1973-1974, Suffolk University, Boston, 1975-1981. National Science Foundation fellow School of Public Health Boston University, 1981-1984, associate research professor School of Public Health, 1984-1986, research professor School of Public Health, from 1986.
Senior scientist Shriver Center, Waltham, 1991—2000. Research professor University Massachusetts Medical School, from 2000. Senior scientist American Society Law, Medicine and Ethics, Boston, from 2003.
Consultant, advisor Science Council Canada, Ottawa, 1987-1990, World Health Organization, Geneva, since 1993. Researcher, reviewer Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, Ottawa, 1988-1992. Member science and industry advisory committee Genome Canada, since 2003.
Consultant National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1990-1991.
( This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial ...)
Member American Public Health Association, American Society of Human Genetics (social issues committee 1991-1994), European Society Human Genetics, Human Genome Organization (member ethics committee since 1999).
Married Richard Wayne Wertz, January 29, 1967.