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Book Detail
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Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
Gaskin, Ina May
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Category: ConsHlth: Ob / Gyn Publisher: Random House, Inc. Imprint: Seven Stories Press Audience: Consumer/ Patient Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.75 x 5.5 in
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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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