"The Endowment of Motherhood"
Speech
By: John F. Moran
Date: January 9, 1915
Source: Moran, John F. "The Endowment of Motherhood." Presidential Address read at a meeting of the Washington, D.C., Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, January 9, 1915. In Journal of the American Medical Association 64, no. 2, January–June, 1915, 122–126.
About the Author: John Francis Moran, M.D. (1885–1929), president of the Washington (D.C.) Obstetrical and Gynecological Society and a longtime critic of traditional home-childbirth midwives, sought to promote hospital childbirth under physician care for all American women.
Introduction
There has always existed a tension between the idea of medicine as a healing art and as a business. Over the last two centuries, physicians—sometimes more loyal to the business end of the health-care industry than to its actual practice on patients—have waged a...
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