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Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender)
Laboring On Birth in Transition in the United States - Perspectives on Gender
Author: Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman
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, obstetric...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415946629
ISBN-10: 041594662X
Publication Date: 11/16/2006
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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