Birth in Transition in the United States
by
Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
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...