Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first
- Title
- Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first / Marsden Wagner.
- Published by
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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- Description
- ix, 295 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Maternity care in crisis : where are the doctors? -- Tribal obstetrics -- Choose and lose : promoting cesarean section and other invasive interventions -- Forced labor : induction or seduction-- Hunting witches : midwifery in America -- Where to be born : here come the obstetric police -- Rights and wrongs : the "malpractice crisis," legal protections for pregnant women, and regulation by litigation -- Vision of a better way to be born -- How to get where we need to be
- Call number
- JFE 08-333
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-282) and index.
- Author
- Wagner, Marsden, 1930-
- Title
- Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first / Marsden Wagner.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-282) and index.
- Connect to:
- LCCN
- 2006018090
- ISBN
- 0520245962 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520245969 (hbk.)
- Research call number
- JFE 08-333