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Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
Series: Perspectives on Gender
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,"...
Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge