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Author Wagner, Marsden, 1930-

Title Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put women and children first / Marsden Wagner
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 babies. Written for mothers and fathers, obstetricians, nurses, midwives, scientists, insurance professionals, and anyone contemplating having a child, this passionate exposé documents how, in the most expensive maternity care system in the world, women have lost control over childbirth and wha
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Obstetrics -- United States -- Quality control
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Obstetrics -- Quality control.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520941748
0520941748