ISBN:
9780520245969
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (307 p.)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Kaplan, Clair Book Review: Wagner M 2006: Born in the USA: how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put women and children first. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 305 pp. USD16.95 (PB). ISBN: 978 0 520 25633 0 2009
Parallel Title:
Print version Born in the USA : How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
DDC:
362.198200973
Keywords:
Childbirth ; United States
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Maternal health services ; United States
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Midwifery ; United States
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Obstetrics ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and babies. Written for mothers and fathers, obstetricians, nurses, midwives, scientists, insurance professionals, and anyone contemplating having a child, this passionate exposé documents how, in the most expensive maternity care system in the world, women have lost control over childbirth and what the d
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Maternity Care in Crisis: Where Are the Doctors?; 2. Tribal Obstetrics; 3. Choose and Lose: Promoting Cesarean Section and Other Invasive Interventions; 4. Forced Labor: Induction or Seduction; 5. Hunting Witches: Midwifery in America; 6. Where to Be Born: Here Come the Obstetric Police; 7. Rights and Wrongs: The "Malpractice Crisis," Legal Protections for Pregnant Women, and Regulation by Litigation; 8. Vision of a Better Way to Be Born; 9. How to Get Where We Need to Be; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z;
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Description based upon print version of record
