Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States

by Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman, Wendy Simonds

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Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization - best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent - and a rhetoric of women's "choices" and "the natural," women and their midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses labor on. Laboring On offers the voices of all of these practitioners, all women trying to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415946638

ISBN13:9780415946636

Release Date:February 2007

Publisher:Routledge

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Clinical Education & Reference Gender Studies Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Internal Medicine Marriage & Family Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology

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