Jacqueline H. Wolf is a professor of the history of medicine at Ohio University. The author of Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries an...
CARL JONES is the author of ten books in the field of childbirth and parenting including the international best seller, Mind over Labor. He conducts workshops for parents and professionals througho...
CARL JONES is the author of ten books in the field of childbirth and parenting including the international best seller, Mind over Labor. He conducts workshops for parents and professionals througho...
Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section.While c-section births pose a higher risk of maternal dea...
Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section.While c-section births pose a higher risk of maternal dea...
Cesarean delivery - childbirth through an incision in the mother's lower abdomen - is now the most common major surgical procedure performed in the United States. No one argues over the fact that i...
Despite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods pro...
This book offers a highly informative guide to surgical remedies for massive hemorrhage and the management of consumptive coagulopathy during cesarean section. Featuring extensive illustrations and...
Once a cesarean, always a cesarean? Not quite Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, j...
On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla grou...
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity car...
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...
Random Acts begins with the invasion of Luxembourg the summer of 1914, during the first required visit Susanna Strashoffer Von Heldorf made from the United States to visit her elderly grandfather i...
作者：Simonds, Wendy/ Rothman, Barbara Katz/ Norman, Bari Meltzer
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 ...