Title: Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first /
Authors: Wagner, Marsden, 1930-
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Obstetrics; Midwifery; Delivery, Obstetric; Maternal Health Services; Childbirth United States.; Maternal health services United States.; Midwifery United States.; Obstetrics United States.; Maternal Health Services United States.; Delivery, Obstetric United States.; Midwifery United States.; Obstetrics United States.; United States
Abstract: "In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and babies. Written for mothers and fathers, obstetricians, nurses, midwives, scientists, insurance professionals, and anyone contemplating having a child, this book documents how, in the most expensive maternity care system in the world, women have lost control over childbirth and what the disturbing results of this phenomenon have been.
Contents: Maternity care in crisis : where are the doctors? -- Tribal obstetrics -- Choose and lose : promoting cesarean section and other invasive interventions -- Forced labor : induction or seduction-- Hunting witches : midwifery in America -- Where to be born : here come the obstetric police -- Rights and wrongs : the "malpractice crisis," legal protections for pregnant women, and regulation by litigation -- Vision of a better way to be born -- How to get where we need to be.