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| Author: Jennifer Block
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 25261
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0738211664
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19
EAN: 9780738211664
ASIN: 0738211664
Publication Date: April 7, 2008
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A Must Read April 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is one of the best books I have ever read, hands down. It is very well researched, yet manages to maintain an immense readability, something that is often hard in a work with this much research support. I would recommend it to any parent.
Excellent! March 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is well researched an presents a complete picture of the issues surrounding childbirth choices.
I strongly recommend reading this to anyone who is pregnant, will be pregnant, is a feminist or in any way cares about women. The issues raised are crucial to improving our maternity care and offering true informed consent and maintaing the right to refuse treatment.
Every Woman Who Is Pregnant or Plans On Becoming Pregnant Needs To Read This February 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's no secret that the modern maternity care system needs a major, complete overhaul. But will we get it? Will it ever happen in this society that generally views birth as 'medical' , 'something to be treated' and not as a 'natural occurrence'?
How can we repair a system that is so detrimental to women and children? How did birth get this way?
These are a few of the many penetrating questions Block poses to the reader throughout the book.
She has made this subject accessible with incredible wry wit, thorough research and compelling narrative.
This is a book every woman needs to read. If you are a woman who has given birth, even contemplating birth and pregnancy, you need to read this.
What needs to be done so that the process of birth is viewed as a normal occurrence and not that of 'something to be fixed'? The 'view' needs to change somehow. At the rate modern obstetrics is going, however, it looks like it's going to be awhile.
I'm not surprised that most physicians and OB's would completely balk at this book-it goes against what they practice, it shows the underbelly of the medical establishment.
Pick up this book. Read it.
http://krisunderwood.blogspot.com/
 Pushovers? February 25, 2008
1 out of 74 found this review helpful
That's what the is author must think pregnant women are.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Pregnant women deserved top quality evidence based medicine. Not this uselss pap.
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care February 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a childbirth educator for many years, having gone thru the 70's "education explosion" and hearing the stories of how women regarded their 2nd or in some cases 3rd childbirth experience as a joy rather than a horror story, all because of education and knowing how to manage a natural, unmedicated childbirth, I loved this book. It puts into perspective what happened, an historic chronology of birth right up to the really bad place we are in today. I really appreciate and identify with the research and development that was put into making this accurate, readable and inspirational. I pray it is read and responded to by those who can initiate change.
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