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The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

By: Jennifer Block

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Paperback | 8 April 2008 | Edition Number 1

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In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery -- the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven states they are illegal. In one of those states, even birthing centers are outlawed.When did birth become an emergency instead of an emergence? Since when is normal, physiological birth a crime? A groundbreaking journalistic narrative, Pushed presents the complete picture of maternity care in America. Crisscrossing the country to report what women really experience during childbirth, Jennifer Block witnessed several births - from a planned cesarean to an underground home birth. Against this backdrop, Block investigates whether routine C-sections, inductions, and epidurals equal medical progress. She examines childbirth as a reproductive rights issue: Do women have the right to an optimal birth experience? If so, is that right being upheld? Block''s research and experience reveal in vivid detail that while emergency obstetric care is essential, there is compelling evidence that we are overusing medical technology at the expense of maternal and infant health: Either women''s bodies are failing, or the system is failing women.

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Non-Fiction Social Services & Welfare Social Welfare & Social Services Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Gynaecology & Obstetrics Family & Health Parenting: Advice & Issues Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care Home Nursing & Caring History Popular Medicine & Health

Women's Health

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Arranged Birth	p. 1
The Short Cut	p. 45
Denied Birth	p. 73
Consequences	p. 109
Mothers' Helpers	p. 149
Underground	p. 177
Criminalized	p. 213
Rights	p. 249
Appendix A	p. 273
Appendix B	p. 277
Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 301
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