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Laboring on: Birth in Transition in the United States by Bari Meltzer Norman, Barbara Katz Rothman, Wendy Simonds

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Laboring on: Birth in Transition in the United States

Bari Meltzer Norman, Barbara Katz Rothman, Wendy Simonds

339 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction gender health challenging informative medium-paced
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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 -- an...

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