title: [The labor chair--historical furniture or a significant renewal].
abstract: The obstetric chair--a useful piece of furniture or just a fashionable revival? This formulation could be conceived of as two hypotheses in the question form. Both need investigation and, if necessary, verification. If one hypothesis is accepted to be the truth, it can be used to refute the other. If, on the one hand, the obstetric chair is merely a historical piece of furniture which is experiencing a fashionable revival, it is of no practical importance today. If, on the other hand, it is also of obvious use nowadays, it is not only a historical piece of furniture.
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D005260:Female; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000266:history*; D011247:Pregnancy
vernacular_title: Der Gebärstuhl--ein historisches Möbel oder eine sinnvolle Erneuerung.