Laboring on: Birth in Transition in the United States by Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

Laboring on: Birth in Transition in the United States

Perspectives on Gender

Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

339 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction gender health challenging informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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