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AuthorWagner, Marsden, 1930-TitleBorn in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first / Marsden Wagner.PublishedBerkeley : University of California Press, c2006.FormatBook
Govt Publication
Descriptionix, 295 p. ; 24 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006018090.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006018090-d.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-282) and index.
ContentsMaternity care in crisis : where are the doctors? -- Tribal obstetrics -- Choose and lose : promoting cesarean section and other invasive interventions -- Forced labor : induction or seduction-- Hunting witches : midwifery in America -- Where to be born : here come the obstetric police -- Rights and wrongs : the "malpractice crisis," legal protections for pregnant women, and regulation by litigation -- Vision of a better way to be born -- How to get where we need to be
ISBN0520245962 (cloth : alk. paper)9780520245969 (hbk.)SubjectObstetrics -- United States.
Childbirth -- United States.
Maternal health services -- United States.
Midwifery -- United States.
Nursing.

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