Product Description Extended  interviews with some of worlds top birth experts. Entertaining and a great resource or teaching aid for midwives, doctors doulas and anyone interested in current maternity practices. Meet the Experts Teaser - Beyond the Face of Birth The Experts Sheila Kitzinger Social anthropologist, researcher, author and campaigner for nurtured evidence-based childbirth, Sheila lectures internationally and at various universities and hospitals in midwifery. She has written over 26 books on pregnancy and childbirth including the well known Politics of Birth. She now works with women who have had damaging birth experiences and campaigns for women to have the information they need to make choices about childbirth. She says: "The term 'choice' has been co-opted by the medical system to mean that women can, if they wish, shop around a bit and take what they fancy, provided that this in line with hospital policies and protocols - including an elective Caesarean section. The side effects, short and long-term, are rarely explained or explored." Michel Odent Michel Odent MD initially trained as a surgeon. He was in charge of the surgical and maternity units at the state hospital in Pithiviers, France (1962-1985) where, he introduced the first birthing centres and water births during the 1970s. Now he is a midwife, educator, researcher and author of 12 books. Following his hospital career he founded the Primal Health Research Centre in London (UK), whose objective is to study the long-term consequences of early life experiences. "We try to give a birthing woman