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The Caesarean »
Authors: Michel Odent
ISBN-13: 9781853437182, ISBN-10: 1853437182
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Association Books Limited
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Michel Odent
Book Synopsis
Odent, a French obstetrician who introduced the concepts of hospital birthing rooms and birthing pools, addresses continuing questions related to caesarean birth, looking at reasons behind widely varying rates of the procedure, why other risky procedures have not been eliminated by the caesarean, and the long-term consequences for infants and mothers, as well as the impact of caesarean birth on trends in head size, the future of the midwifery-obstetrics relationship, and the possibility of a gentler society of citizens born by caesarean. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | A management rescue operation | 1 |
| 2 | One route or the other | 5 |
| 3 | Safer and safer | 9 |
| 4 | Breaking a vicious circle | 17 |
| 5 | When our dreams come true | 25 |
| 6 | Towards a super-brainy homo sapiens? | 30 |
| 7 | Twenty-first-century criteria | 35 |
| 8 | Long-term thinking | 42 |
| 9 | Towards an unprecedented cultural diversity? | 52 |
| 10 | Entering the world of microbes | 58 |
| 11 | Entering the world of odours | 62 |
| 12 | Nursing the caesarean born | 66 |
| 13 | A thousand and one reasons to be offered a caesarean | 73 |
| 14 | Once a caesarean always a caesarean? | 82 |
| 15 | If caesarean becomes necessary for you | 89 |
| 16 | What mothers say | 93 |
| 17 | The perineal preoccupation | 96 |
| 18 | Either ... or ... | 102 |
| 19 | Antenatal scare | 111 |
| 20 | Received ideas | 120 |
| 21 | The future of the midwifery-obstetrics relationship | 131 |
| 22 | Too rational to survive | 136 |
| Notes and references | 139 | |
| Index | 159 |
Subjects
Health Books, Diet & Fitness Books
Health Medical Procedures & Consumer Education
Health Books, Diet & Fitness Books Women's Health Women's Health - General & Miscellaneous
Parenting & Family Pregnancy & Childbirth Pregnancy & Childbirth - Childbirth
Health Medical Procedures & Consumer EducationHealth Books, Diet & Fitness Books
Women's Health Women's Health - General & MiscellaneousParenting & Family
Pregnancy & Childbirth Pregnancy & Childbirth - Childbirth