Women and Birth
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 21-25 , March 2008

The politics of midwifery education and training in New South Wales during the last decades of the 19th Century

Received 9 October 2007 ,Accepted 9 November 2007.

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PII: S1871-5192(07)00118-7

doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2007.11.002

Women and Birth
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 21-25 , March 2008