Wendy Simonds: 2 books
Hospital Land USA
Sociological Adventures in Medicalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In Hospital Land USA, Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday experiences, culture, and social life. Simonds documents her own Hospital Land adventures and draws on a wide...
Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
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...