The Birth Wars
eBook - ePub

The Birth Wars

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eBook - ePub

The Birth Wars

About this book

Women are told they have pregnancy and birth care choices, but their only real choice is which side to take in the birth wars. Each day, battles are waged in hospitals and clinics around Australia— between those who view birth as medical and those who view birth as natural. Both sides care deeply about women and babies and feel they should manage birth for women. They are the doctors and the midwives, or 'mechanics' and 'organics', vying for power in The Birth Wars. Based on extensive interviews, national research, and moving personal stories, The Birth Wars exposes the cold reality of what happens to women and families when these two sides clash. Writer, journalist, and mother Mary-Rose MacColl delves into the history of birth in Australia, and shows why organics and mechanics must work together to put families' needs at the centre of birth.  

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Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. 1 LILLIENNE
  8. 2 TERRAIN
  9. 3 PREGNANCY
  10. 4 BIRTH
  11. 5 COUNTRY
  12. 6 MOTHERHOOD
  13. 7 JEMIMA
  14. Endnotes
  15. Author’s Note
  16. Index
  17. Imprint page