Dick-Read, Grantly (1890-1959)

British gynaecologist. He studied at Cambridge and at the London Hospital. His unorthodox work, Natural Childbirth (1933), with its rejection of anaesthetics during childbirth and its advocacy of prenatal relaxation exercises, caused controversy, but later found common acceptance. In 1948 he emigrated to South Africa, where in 1954 he conducted a tour of African tribes investigating childbirth.