Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put women and children first
Offers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country. This book tells: why women are 70 per cent more likely to die in childbirth in US than in Europe; what motivates obstetricians to use dangerous and unnecessary drugs and procedures; and, why procedures such as cesarean section and birth inductions are so readily used.
Print Book, English, 2006
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2006
295 pages ; 23 cm
9780520245969, 9780520256330, 0520245962, 0520256336
1083059588
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