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"The medical model of childbirth emphasizes the pathological potential of pregnancy and birth. An alternative model championed by midwives focuses on the normalcy of pregnancy and its potential for health. This book explains in a comprehensive and authoritative manner the conceptual and philosophical differences between these models and the effects and outcomes of these two different approaches to the care of pregnant women. While acknowledging the...
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"A doctor's revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life-and everything we lose when we don't speak honestly about women's health. "My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people's lives, into the extremes of human experience," writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine-that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies....
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"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, 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 book documents...
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This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home birth movement of the 1980s. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. In a new chapter and epilogue, Richard and Dorothy Wertz discuss the recent focus on...
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This graduate-level nursing text and professional clinical reference is the first to comprehensively address the escalating crisis in U.S. maternal health our country experiences the highest maternal mortality among developed nations and provides strategies and roadmaps for improved outcomes. It challenges the current approach to ameliorating the maternal crisis, which embeds maternal care into child health.
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