Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first / Marsden Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Marsden, 1930-

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obstetrics--United States.

Obstetrics.

Childbirth--United States.

Childbirth.

Maternal health services--United States.

Maternal health services.

Midwifery.

United States.

Midwifery--United States.

Maternal Health Services.

Delivery, Obstetric.

Medical Subjects:

Maternal Health Services.

Delivery, Obstetric.

Obstetrics.

Midwifery.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 295 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 babies.

Contents:

Maternity 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-282) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520941748

0520941748

Publisher Number:

99970182855

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.