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"<An> engrossing survey of the history of childbirth."—Stephen Lowman, Washington Post Making and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys... read more
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First Sentence edit
Eve, the first woman to become pregnant, suffered from excruciating pain during the delivery because she cheated on her diet.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Part One
1. Eve's Doing: Birth from Antiquity through the Middle Ages
2. Men with Tools: Forceps Use from 1600s to 1800s
3. Slave Women's Contribution to Gynecology
Part Two
4. Dying to Give Birth: Maternal Mortality into the Twentieth Century
5. Leaving Home: New York's Lying-In and the Growth of Maternity Wards
6. Birth Is but a Sleep and Forgetting
Part Three
7. What Was She Thinking?
8. It's Only Natural
9. Toxic Advice and a Deadly Drug: DES
Part Four
10. From Kitchen-Table Surgery to the Art of the C-Section
11. Freebirthers
12. Womb with a View
Part Five
13. Sperm Shopping
14. The Big Chill
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Authors & Contributors edit
- Randi Hutter Epstein (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Norton
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0393064581
Page Count: 302
Publisher: Norton
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0393064581
Page Count: 302
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- Dewey: 618.2009
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