Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

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, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and ba...

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Main Author: Wagner, Marsden (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Berkeley University of Californiarnia Press 2006
In:Year: 2006
Reviews:Book Review: Wagner M 2006: Born in the USA: how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put women and children first. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 305 pp. USD16.95 (PB). ISBN: 978 0 520 25633 0 (2009) (Kaplan, Clair)
Further subjects:B Maternal health services ; United States
B Childbirth ; United States
B Electronic books
B Midwifery ; United States
B Obstetrics ; United States
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505 8 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Maternity Care in Crisis: Where Are the Doctors?; 2. Tribal Obstetrics; 3. Choose and Lose: Promoting Cesarean Section and Other Invasive Interventions; 4. Forced Labor: Induction or Seduction; 5. Hunting Witches: Midwifery in America; 6. Where to Be Born: Here Come the Obstetric Police; 7. Rights and Wrongs: The "Malpractice Crisis," Legal Protections for Pregnant Women, and Regulation by Litigation; 8. Vision of a Better Way to Be Born; 9. How to Get Where We Need to Be; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; 
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