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Paperback Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence Book

ISBN: 1421438119

ISBN13: 9781421438115

Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence

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Why have cesarean sections become so commonplace in the United States?

Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously--from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5-10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early...

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