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Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put women and children first /

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 ba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner, Marsden, 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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