Birth

the surprising history of how we are born

Hardcover, 312 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2006 by Atlantic Monthly Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West.

ISBN:
978-0-87113-938-2
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OCLC Number:
70129218

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"Starting with a lively, personal introduction in which Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own experiences of giving birth, readers are taken on an astounding journey into the history of childbirth. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we are born the way we are."--BOOK JACKET.

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Subjects

  • Childbirth -- History.
  • Labor, Obstetric -- history.
  • Delivery, Obstetric -- history.
  • Parturition.
  • Geboorte.
  • Filosofische aspecten.