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Preterm babies, fetal patients, and childbearing choices /
The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United States remains high--even though more women have...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Basic bioethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two narratives about pregnancy in the twentieth century
- Individual decisions : a 34 year-old pregnant woman at 36 weeks
- Stillbirth
- Late preterm birth
- Are there too many c-sections?
- Feminist critiques of obstetrics
- The debate about home birth
- Are c-sections good for women (and babies, too)?
- The fetus becomes a patient
- The pill (and delayed childbearing)
- The changing demography of childbearing
- Maternal age, multiple pregnancies, and preterm birth
- Maternal age and infertility
- Changing demographics and preterm birth rates
- Your fetus becomes a baby
- A defense of modern obstetrics
- Neonatal intensive care and infant mortality
- The evolution of prenatal care
- International comparisons
- The paradox of modern prenatal care
- Conclusions.