Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta:
Gaskin, Ina May |
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ISBN 13: 9781583229279 ISBN 10: 1583229272 Category: ConsHlth: Ob / Gyn Edition: 1 Publisher: Random House, Inc. Copyright: 2011 Format: Paperback LC Call Number: RG661.G375 2011 NLM: [DNLM: 1.Natural Childbirth.WQ 152] Status: Active Imprint: Seven Stories Press Audience: Consumer/ Patient Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.75 x 5.5 in Pages: 250 Weight: 0.7 Retail Price: 16.95 Quantity On Hand: 0 Quantity On Order: 0 |
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Synopsis: Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. |
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