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  1. Laboring On

    Birth in Transition in the United States

    By Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

    Series: Perspectives on Gender

    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,"...

    Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge

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