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  • Title: "It's been a long road to acceptance": midwives in Rhode Island, 1970-2000.
    Author: Caron SM.
    Journal: Nurs Hist Rev; 2014; 22():61-94. PubMed ID: 24032236.
    Abstract:
    A resurgence of midwifery came to Rhode Island in the 1970s. Midwives acted as modern health care professionals to conserve a traditional woman-centered birth, but the battle was long and arduous, from Dr. Ellen Stone attempting to eliminate midwives in the state in 1912 to doctors using the death of 2 home birth infants in the 1980s to undermine the growing presence of professional nurse-midwives in the state. Midwives prevailed when the state legislature passed measures in 1988 and 1990 increasing the power and authority of midwives, and when a federal grant in 1993 allowed the University of Rhode Island to open the first training program for nurse-midwives in the state.
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