Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis-Floyd

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Robbie Davis-Floyd

424 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction health challenging informative slow-paced
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Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these q...

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