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Author Roth, Louise Marie, 1970- author.

Title The business of birth : malpractice and maternity care in the United States / Louise Marie Roth
Published New York : New York University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, color maps
Contents Birth Matters: The Importance of Birth and the Logic of American Maternity Care -- Law Matters: Tort Regimes and Reproductive Rights Regimes -- Myths of Malpractice: Liability Risk in American Maternity Care -- What's the Rush? Tort Laws and Elective Early-Term Births -- The Machine that Goes Ping! Technology Fetishism and the Electronic Fetal Monitor -- If in Doubt, Cut it Out: Malpractice and Cesareans -- Choice Matters: Reproductive Rights Regimes and VBAC -- Reproductive Regimes: The Legal Environment and Maternity Care in the United States
Summary ""The Business of Birth" explores malpractice and maternity care in the United States"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Authoritative knowledge
Birth
Cesarean
Choice
Court-ordered cesareans
Defensive medicine
Disrespectful care/Obstetric violence
Early-term birth
Elective delivery
Electronic fetal monitor
Evidence-based medicine
Feticide
Forced cesareans
Healthcare system
Induction of labor
Institutional culture
Legal endogeneity
Legal regimes
Liability insurance
Malpractice
Maternity care field
Maternity care
Medical malpractice
Medical professional dominance
Medicalization of childbirth
Midwife-attended birth
Midwifery model
Midwifery
Organizational efficiency
Out-of-hospital birth
Prenatal substance abuse
Reproductive Justice
Reproductive regimes
Reproductive rights regimes
Reproductive rights
Risk
Scienciness
Standard of care
Technology fetishism
Tort law
Tort reforms
Tort regimes
VBAC
Weekend births
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2021)
Subject Maternal health services -- United States
Maternal health services -- Economic aspects -- United States
Obstetricians -- Malpractice -- United States
MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Maternal health services
Maternal health services -- Economic aspects
Obstetricians -- Malpractice
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020015025
ISBN 9781479809097
1479826111
9781479826117
1479809098