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Laboring on

by Wendy Simonds

2007 339 pages eng

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 a rhetoric of women's "choices" and "the natural," wo…

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