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| Document Type: | Book |
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Tina Cassidy |
| ISBN: | 0871139383 9780871139382 |
| OCLC Number: | 70129218 |
| Description: | 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Evolution and the female body -- 2. Midwives throughout time -- 3. The hut, the home, and the hospital -- 4. Pain relief -- 5. The cesarean section -- 6. The dawn of doctors -- 7. Tools and fads -- 8. A father's place -- 9. The postpartum period. |
| Responsibility: | Tina Cassidy. |
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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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